Of course they want to make money for their shareholders, that's the purpose of any publicly held company. But the fact still remains that there are a lot of countries out there that are putting artificial limits on how much drug companies can charge in their country and that doesn't stop these drugs from costing a tremendous amount to bring to market. The vast majority of drugs put through development never reach market at all. but their cost still needs to be paid for. The point is, drug development is insanely expensive, these are not mustache-twirling villains trying to screw widows and orphans, they are business people doing the best they can with what they're given and the overwhelming majority of drug development on the planet comes from the U.S. The fact that U.S. health care is broken, and I agree that it is, that doesn't change the costs for drug development. People complaining about how much it costs don't get how much it actually costs.