People in the US can afford to pay a lot more for healthcare than in India. They just can't afford to pay twice as much as other industrialized countries.
Mebendazole (functionally equivalent to albendazole, as I understand it) is 4 USD a tablet here in Ontario. So even with this you're still paying 3x as much.
I doubt $.50 is the true cost, there's a program to donate millions of tablets to developing countries:
compare price of labor between usa and india. Outsourcing everything to asia will be beneficial for company (and probably consumers since lower prices), but not for americans who work for cuban rn
This isn't the garment industry. Labour costs in drug manufacturing (as opposed to drug development) are negligible.