Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Medicine in India

From the Economist:

" 'In the absence of competition, differential pricing is a hoax; scoffs Yusuf Hamied, chairman of Cipla, an Indian generics firm. In his view, only generic-makers like his firm provide genuine competition to Big Pharma..."


More correctly, differential pricing (IE, price discrimination) is not even possible with competition. If I am competing with someone, he's going to be charging a lower price than I am.

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