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Originally Posted by Fletch XXX
i dont want to argue about this stuff, but fact is, you make it sound like companies need *new* drugs every two years because there patent will run out.... ummm.... you are proving why the patent is the problem and dont know it.
The reason drug makers want *new* drugs is so people cannot make "generic versions" of the pill. You must also not be aware that most old people simply do not purchase "name brand" drugs and go after "generic" versions because they cost significantly less...
Sorry, but you want to allow drug makers to keep using patients and sick people as pawns in their patent game and are missing a big part of the story here.
Once a drug has been made, you dont need a *new* one every two years LOL After two years other companies can then begin making that drug. Its a cycle, a game and they use sick people to play it.
This is like saying only Bayer should be able to make Aspirin, that effectively is what you are supporting. One company to make one drug and hold sick people as prisoner to purchase that drug only. You know how many companies make ASPIRIN??? Why should we ever turn that over to one company?
the only reason drug makers make new forms of same drug every few years is to manipulate patent law and abuse them, if you annot grasp that no amount of my typing will help you.
You encourage their abuse, I say we should have generic drugs too.
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Do you really believe companies will put billions of research and development into a drug if they aren't allowed to profit from it exclusively over the years? You guys seem to have this belief that if patents didn't exist, these companies would continue to pump billions into making new drugs.
The system isn't perfect, and in fact it does suck. People are used as pawns and profit goes above health many times. But the only alternative solution to that is to completely nationalize the drug industry and have our tax dollars fund the development of every drug out there. That way profits don't matter.