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Re:Nonprofit Working to Block Drug Imports Has Ties to Pharm... by refurb on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @11:14PM (#14153631)
The article show where the drug was discovered. And as I mentioned, almost 80% were discovered by a private company.

Now, if you'd like to claim that that discovery was based on science paid for by the gov't, I won't disagree, but continuing that line of thought we could claim that drug companies are greedy because they are taking advantage of organic chemists who did work 200 years ago.

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Re:Nonprofit Working to Block Drug Imports Has Ties to Pharm... by louithethrid on Saturday April 22, 2017 @02:50AM (#14171415)
The problem is that they have no incentive to actually cure. And near not incentive to provide cheap medication- which the patent system incentives you too, by running out after x Years. (Unless you are a frozzen Princess aka Disney) Lots of diseases are only researched at universitys. They have however a incentive, to sell anything expensive, to a audience desperate (that alone is a free market killer). And they do. I just try to understand how one can defend a held-hostage situation with free market rethoric.
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