What about drugs that cost more than $10 per day to produce?  Hell that&#x27;s only $3650 per year.  How many manufacturing plans can sustain themselves on that sort of revenue, particularly if they are creating a drug for a disease that only affects 1000 patients in the world?<p>One of the reasons why generic drugs prices jumped so much in the last few years, if because manufacturers said <i>&quot;screw this&quot;</i> and just stopped making the drugs because the margins were so low.