Begin developed for fighting malaria, chloroquine might have a manufacturing cost of 50 cents per dose, or less. According to my doctor, most expensive drugs cost that, or less, to manufacture. Expect it to cost Americans one arm and two legs.
Actually Teva Pharmaceuticals is going to donate 6 million doses of the drug to hospitals by the end of this month.
To your other point, drugs cost millions of dollars to develop and quite often that money goes nowhere if a drug doesn't pan out. I've worked for four pharma companies in my career and I can tell you that the number of drugs that don't make it through the pipeline is way higher than those that do.
Pressing pills (as it's known) costs next to nothing. The joke is that the first pill costs $5,000,000 but the second costs 10 cents.
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