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Old 06-10-2008, 10:22 AM   #16
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Sorry, but I don't believe that anyone has a "right" to such things. If you want drugs, the company which develops them has a right to charge a fair market price for them - one which will recoup their development costs, and give them a reasonable profit margin too.

In some countries (eg yours and mine) those drugs are centrally funded by the taxpayer. In other countries, they have to be bought by the individual. But either way, they are paid for.

Once the patent on a drug expires, THEN other companies are free to make "clone" copies of the drug at a lower price if they wish. If, however, you deny a company the right to patent rights on drugs, then no drug company in the world is going to spend the billions of $ it costs to develop such things.
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