Samantha Bee on America's warehouses of untested rape kits

And if law enforcement announced they were going to make an effort to test these kits, you might get some additional testing labs offering their services in hopes of a slice of that $40 million dollar pie. The price would probably still remain in the $40 million dollar range, even with the additional competition pushing prices down somewhat and potential volume discounts, because the government would still be involved and so the savings would be counterbalanced by the bureaucracy, but it might push commercial prices for DNA testing services down from $199.

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