It's only $100 in Mexico because the company can charge $10000 in the US. Not by some inherent virtue of the Mexican system. If the US forced costs down they'd rise everywhere else.

The US subsidizes the rest of the world in Medicine, Defense, Technology, etc...

Thanks to the magic of Google, I've learned that Mexican scorpion antivenom was in fact developed in Mexico, by a Mexican company, and now you did too.

https://synapse.patsnap.com/article/what-is-serum-antiscorpi...

Not true. Companies charge the maximum they can rationally charge in each country.

In the US, they can charge whatever they want because the system is broken, and the influence of money on politics means that it doesn’t get fixed.

Is the 10K price in the US due to ongoing costs, recouping R&D, paying for marketing? Because if it's not a real ongoing cost then it's just "wha'tcha got?" pricing.

I doubt they sell it so cheap in Mexico to be charitable. Which suggests they're just soaking the US market.

This could be simply fixed by the US allowing the re-importation of drugs. Without it, we end up with monopolistic pricing.

I wonder how you justify the cost of insulin.

The lies Americans tell themselves to support their own exploitation will always amaze me.

I don't think it's rational to believe that big pharma is giving charity to Mexico. It's $100 a vial in Mexico because that's the optimal price to sell it in Mexico to maximize profit, not because it's subsidized by unregulated price-gouging in the United States.

Oh hey look, a brain-dead cultist!

Can’t wait for dang to come in and say it’s OK to be racist.