You say, sold ‘to’ NZ.
It is, as far as I can tell, manufactured there. By Pfizer.
NZ may not even have price controls, but I don’t know.
I’ve had pharma that was made in Turkey, too.
Maybe it’s like the internet. Customer demand treats intransigent nationalism like network damage and routes around it.
If it were as simple as a news story moving aound censors on the net, then there would be no issue.
The fact is that nearly every other country besides the US has price controls on drugs, procedures, and medical devices. In other countries, these price controls are applied under the rubric of socialist “positive rights” language.
As a result, the US funds the medical innovation of the entire world. Very few drugs come to market because of the commercial potential in other countries- it is the US market that they are all developed for because of the freedom to charge something resembling a market price for a drug.
The US alone has rejected the “intransigent nationalism” of other countries that disallow freedom of contract.
Customers can’t simultaneously demand Turkish drug prices and US innovation.
But don’t worry, when innovation dries up, your Dem Senator friends will cook up lots of taxes and and new programs to fund research. And so one more sector of the economy falls under the aegis of state control. Too bad it won’t be for ailments that you or most Americans suffer from. Just the ones with political saliency.