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Once you jettison ideas like originality and genius, there is no justification for prices in the millions.
After years of defending high prices as necessary to cover the cost of research or production, industry executives increasingly point to the intrinsic value of their medicines as justification for prices.
For starters, the justification for price controls on prescription drugs is based in myth.
In China at this time, the cost of a typical course of treatment for AIDS-related CMV retinitis with valganciclovir is approximately equivalent to the cost of purchasing 2 new small cars.1 Valganciclovir is chemically similar to acyclovir, an inexpensive and widely available medication, so there is little inherent justification for exorbitant pricing based on the cost of drug production.
High prices have become a justification for higher prices and $150 a barrel is quickly turning into a self-fulfilling prophecy".
At the time, Rackspace provided a detailed picture of the price decrease, going into detail about its justification for the price drop.
But there is no clear justification for the price increase based on production costs of the auto-injector alone, or the price of naloxone itself.
And while the price difference between iPad mini ($329) and Kindle Fire HD/NOOK HD ($199) is crystal clear, the justification for said price difference is, I am afraid, quite blurry.
Rising costs are sometimes cited as justification for the price increases.
The justification for high prices historically has been that the money is needed to pay for drug development.
Further, it suits them as a justification for higher prices and national champions that consumers have the impression that supplies are vulnerable.
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