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Heinz's Dilemma

By KieranMathieson
Created: June 4, 2002
Last updated: August 10, 2002
Permissions: Private
Description: One of the classics. What are your thoughts?

In Europe, a woman was near death from cancer. One drug might save her, a form of radium that a druggist in the same town had recently discovered. The druggist was charging $2000, ten times what the drug had cost him to make. The sick woman's husband, Heinz, went to everyone he knew to borrow the money, but he could get together only about half of what it should cost. He told the druggist that his wife was dying and asked him to sell it cheaper or to let him pay later. But the druggist said no. What should Heinz do?

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