Can you think of anything lower than a pharmaceutical maker shorting production to make a $
The 5 people who make Plaquenil and the generic, Hydroxychloroquine, decided some months ago to slow production to a trickle, leaving some patients unable to find the meds. Once they slowly began producing more, the price has gone up from roughly .50 cents a pill to over $5.00 a pill (for those who can find it). Sure from .50 cents to $5 bucks doesn't sound like much, but this is one of those meds that we'll be on until the day we die. I'm supposed to take 2 a day. I'm also supposed to take another medication that went from $20 bucks a month to over $100 month for a four dose pack. My cost for those generics that have been around forever went from about $40 a month to nearly $400 a month in less than a year.
Last year it was my chemotherapy medicine Methotrexate that they shorted supply and then jacked up the cost.
This isn't some sexy drug that makes my eyelashes fuller (yes, there's a drug for that, complete with a ton of warnings and side effects. Latisse " the first and only FDA-approved treatment for inadequate or not enough lashes"
, but one that helps my immune system stop attacking my vital organs.
What kind of sick fuck sees a captive, sick audience and decides that's where he'll make the shareholders more money next quarter?
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Gotta grow Grow GROW! And with finite resources and finite products and finite customers, there are few places left to grow. Under-paying employees and over-charging customers are two of them 
well geez, they have to make their money somehow! 
Big Pharma deserves all the contempt thrown their way.
