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The 50% on marketing number isn't BS: https://www.vox.com/2015/2/11/8018691/big-pharma-research-ad...

Everytime I've gone looking for this, it's just been confirmed over and over.

It's not just marketing in that graph, it's sales & marketing. Insurance companies don't make getting drugs covered and to patients easy. Newly created drugs are pretty useless if neither doctor nor patient has heard of them.

Insurance companies don't make getting drugs covered and to patients easy. Newly created drugs are pretty useless if neither doctor nor patient has heard of them.

Ergo hookers and blow? I don't buy it.

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