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Re:Is it time to nationalise the pharmaceutical industry? by nyxtom on Thursday March 05, 2020 @04:58PM (#22498798)
You would think that's a big part of the problem, but some of these issues like:

- Pharmaceutical companies sponsoring/paying doctors to push their products

- Paying doctors to put their names on papers they haven't even written or reward for research they never actually did

- Companies that engage in patent thicketing and product hopping (drug companies abusing the patent system to hold onto market share and prevent any generic competition)

- Pharmaceutical companies engaging in price gouging tactics

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Re:Is it time to nationalise the pharmaceutical industry? by mc32 on Thursday March 05, 2020 @05:46PM (#22499174)
That happens in countries with universal or semi socialized medicine too.

Obviously these are two different things. What I’m saying is whether or not healthcare is private or nationalized, the pharma industry in those countries are not nationalized (like say the way they were in the eastern bloc).

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Re:Is it time to nationalise the pharmaceutical industry? by dariusj18 on Thursday March 05, 2020 @05:45PM (#22499170)
And preventing these things are the role of government, not practicing them itself.
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