Not sure where that number came from for Copaxone, because I remember seeing it at ~$2700 at least once last year, although I admit I don't look that often.

As for why they are the same price? You aren't paying much for the medicine or the syringe, or the materials they send along with it...you are paying for the years and years of research they put into it. A huge % of the cost of most high dollar meds is in the research it took to produce them, including the clinical trials and such (as well as the payoff to the investors who footed the bill for the research costs).

It is easy to get mad at these companies for trying to make a profit, but the reality is that without the profit motive in place, most of these drugs wouldn't exist. I don't like the high costs any more than anybody else, but until we decide to invest billions more dollars of taxpayer money in medical research, the investors are the ones paying for it, and they deserve to make a profit on the risk they take.