Do you know how little of their own money pharma companies spend on R&D? The majority of their budget is for advertising and marketing. Most of their R&D budget is from government grants i.e. taxpayer money. Meaning more often than not you are paying twice for life-saving drugs.
Capitalism CookBook: Take an invention which the inventor wanted to be accessible to everyone and make it 57 times more expensive than it costed to make it 🧐🎩 (i.imgur.com)