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A comment on How Parents Harnessed the Power of Social Media to Challenge EpiPen Prices. Parent comment

Re:How Parents Harnessed the Power of Social Media to Challe... by nickff on Friday August 26, 2016 @02:17AM (#12364553)
Setting a maximum price does not allow the government to take the patent away. The companies could simply refuse to comply, and the government would either effectively ban the drug or be forced to buy the patent/license at a fair market price.
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Re:How Parents Harnessed the Power of Social Media to Challe... by 1024core on Friday August 26, 2016 @12:58PM (#12367567)
The government has more than enough in its arsenal to force these companies to comply. cf Joseph Nacchio and QWest Communications. It knows how to play dirty and kneecap someone.
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Re:How Parents Harnessed the Power of Social Media to Challe... by douche on Friday August 26, 2016 @08:34AM (#12365715)
All they have to do is write the law that says they can.
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Re:How Parents Harnessed the Power of Social Media to Challe... by nickff on Friday August 26, 2016 @09:59AM (#12366270)
There is a Supreme Court decision that says confiscation of a patent is a constitutional taking, so they would actually have to change the constitution.
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Re:How Parents Harnessed the Power of Social Media to Challe... by danielweber on Friday August 26, 2016 @02:17PM (#12368176)
Curse the law of law!!
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