Of the top 10 pharma companies, 5 are American, and three of them rank 8th, 9th and 10th for R&D investment.
So the whole "American big pharma needs to make a billion dollars a week in profit to recoup their R&D" is nothing but marketing fluff.
So the whole "American big pharma needs to make a billion dollars a week in profit to recoup their R&D" is nothing but marketing fluff.
I haven’t seen anyone say American pharma companies in particular need to make a ton of money.
The American-specific topic is that American consumers pay a ton more for drugs. That can be chalked up to lack of single-payer making American consumers incredibly easy to bully/negotiate against + all the rent-seekers who sit at various points along the care delivery system.
I would think any company - regardless of where it’s headquartered - would seek to recoup R&D costs in a huge market like the US where prices aren’t capped by the government.