WayeeCool [comrade/them]@hexbear.nettoLate Stage Capitalism@lemmygrad.ml•China’s new cancer drug is approved in the US but will cost 30 times more: US$280 in China, US$8,892 in the USEnglish
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9 months agoWho is pocketing the price difference:
Junshi partnered with California-based Coherus BioSciences to bring the drug to the US, and it is expected to become available within the first quarter of next year.
Gotta love how the US regulatory regime is structured so middle men always get their taste. It’s like how the US doesn’t produce much in the way of active ingredients, instead US companies import them from China, India, and Poland then package them under their own brand name into pill, capsule, or injectable formulation. During this process the price somehow increases 1,000% to 10,000% over what they paid for the active ingredient.
Even if turkey just started covertly supplying weapons, it would be a significant turning point. Turkey is one of the 4 major manufacturers and exporters of advanced military hardware. Like the US, China, and Russia— Turkey is one of the sources of so-called 5th generation military hardware.
Currently the most advanced weapons available to the resistance axis come from Iran. Iranian weapons are admirable, especially when one factors in the decades of sanctions, but Turkish military hardware is comparable to top end US, Chinese, and Russian military hardware. Would be high attrition military hardware like single use drones, manpads, and cruise missiles.