I guess I don't understand how this price thing with Advair represents r and d etc. I used to take Advair, and then the price kept going up to where the last time I was prescribed it, the copay was 356 dollars a month. I said I couldn't afford that and walked out of the pharmacy.
But I took it for years, and it was affordable, with an affordable copay. So I don't get how the price skyrocketing--and that's three people on this board alone who stopped taking it because it was unaffordable-- is a product of the costs the company ran up in developing the drug.