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Originally Posted by Rick Lee
If $750/tablet is reflective of the market, then he will certainly attract competition that now sees making a generic copy as a viable option. That will be good for everyone. If he left the price at $13/tablet and continued to lose money on it, they'd eventually stop making it and then no one would have it. The fact that its patent expired decades ago suggests no one else thinks it's worthwhile to copy at the $13/tablet price point.
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In a market you buy what you want from any of a number of vendors at the best price you can get, or maybe you don't buy at all.
There is no market here. It's not a market if you are forced to buy or die. He has a monopoly on a life saving drug. Buyers have to pay the price or literally suffer and perhaps die. This is blackmail.
His behavior is reprehensible, but he is a capitalist hero.