system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Why my medicine costs 14k for every dose. How is it even possible for a chemical to cost that much?
gpt
You aren't paying for the actual chemical, you are paying for all the research that led to the creation of that medicine.  It may take a company millions or billions of dollars to find, test, and build manufacturing to develop a new drug, and then it may cost nearly nothing to manufacture each dose.