Jim, I think the comparison to the debacle over the price of AIDS drugs in Africa holds.

If you take into account the economy of scale of the AIDS crisis in Africa, its hard to see how the drug companies could have EVER have attempted to justify what they did in Africa. The number of confirmed cases alone, even if not one more human being ever contracted the disease in Africa, would have guaranteed a huge windfall for the drug companies, even at the cheapest cut-rate prices.

So how do you account for that sort of despicable behavior?