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BarelyLit

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BarelyLit··on Health care veteran tries to upend the system and bring drug prices down
>Gleevec, the Novartis cancer drug, was approved in 2001 and turned a form of leukemia into a chronic disease. It initially cost $24,000 a year, but the list price reached $100,000 a year by the time it went generic in 2016

Novartis increased the price by about $5k a year. That's insane, I don't think this should be legal. How come there are no laws that keep the prices of medication under control?