Will future biomedical advances be low marginal cost?

·Marginal Revolution··

Most pharmaceuticals involve high upfront costs, to discover and test the drug, and very low marginal costs. Another pill can be printed almost for free. That cost structure favors health systems, such as that of Britain, that try to pay lower for services. They can end up getting a relatively good deal from price discrimination. After all, they can be served at low marginal cost, at least for those ttreatments. Now imagine a biomedical future where many more treatments are based on the sequenci...

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