Re:Foreigners turn to India in search of cut-price, life-sav...
by zanny on Monday March 07, 2016 @01:56PM
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So instead nations still foot the bill for research. The draconian US patent system proportedly produces more drug R&D than elsewhere, but where are those patents applicable?
The US, and anyone agreeing to honor its patents.
Everyone else gets free drug R&D without anything close to international discourse on funding drug research, because its privatized and thus in the scope of trade law.
Even better, the drug patent system means novel treatments are being developed for life threatening conditions that the suffers are disproportionately unlikely to be able to afford ("The Sick", as a demographic, are much poorer than average for obvious reasons). So not only are you subsidizing global drug research, you are doing it on the backs of the poor.
The US, and anyone agreeing to honor its patents.
Everyone else gets free drug R&D without anything close to international discourse on funding drug research, because its privatized and thus in the scope of trade law.
Even better, the drug patent system means novel treatments are being developed for life threatening conditions that the suffers are disproportionately unlikely to be able to afford ("The Sick", as a demographic, are much poorer than average for obvious reasons). So not only are you subsidizing global drug research, you are doing it on the backs of the poor.