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Re:The Same Pill That Costs $1,000 in America Sells for $4 i... by replicatorblog on Wednesday December 30, 2015 @12:57AM (#10810965)
Exactly—please point to a pharma company that is doing original R&D and creating important products in a country where IP protections are weak.
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Re:The Same Pill That Costs $1,000 in America Sells for $4 i... by aravindet on Wednesday December 30, 2015 @01:12AM (#10811001)
This is the correlation-causation confusion again. Some countries have big pharma companies, others don't. Big pharma companies can spend more on research as well as on lobbying to maintain over-the-top “IP” protections.

The flaw in your reasoning is seeing the presence or absence of IP protection as an independent variable, and level of R&D as a function of that. I think both are dependent on the amount of cash pharma companies have to spend.

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