Can't pot just be legalized in all states already?

[sckmidck]

Getting rid of intellectual patents is absolutely ridiculous.

I can agree with all other things you said.

These patents for drugs that would radically improve the lives of millions suffering from disease are great, so pay these developers a fair price to cover the cost and so they can walk off rich for the rest of their lives, but don't use these patents to restrict access because the prices are so obscene.

HIV medications cost on average $1/pill to produce, big pharma charges about $45/pill

Hep C medications that can now clear the virus in as little as 6-8 weeks, some that even work against all genotypes. They cost about $1 pill to produce. They charge anywhere from $30K to 80K for the drugs necessary to clear the disease depending if you need 1 or 2 cycles of the medication.

This does humanity no good, it does great for big pharma where you have CEO's that can make $200 million a year and many of them aren't even scientists, they're advertising executives.

If you want to patent a toy or a gadget, I could care less, but when it comes to things that impact health worldwide, we could use more Jonas Salk's, instead of the greedy bastards running the show right now.

 

[4Figgy]

These patents for drugs that would radically improve the lives of millions suffering from disease are great, so pay these developers a fair price to cover the cost and so they can walk off rich for the rest of their lives, but don't use these patents to restrict access because the prices are so obscene.

HIV medications cost on average $1/pill to produce, big pharma charges about $45/pill

Hep C medications that can now clear the virus in as little as 6-8 weeks, some that even work against all genotypes. They cost about $1 pill to produce. They charge anywhere from $30K to 80K for the drugs necessary to clear the disease depending if you need 1 or 2 cycles of the medication.

This does humanity no good, it does great for big pharma where you have CEO's that can make $200 million a year and many of them aren't even scientists, they're advertising executives.

If you want to patent a toy or a gadget, I could care less, but when it comes to things that impact health worldwide, we could use more Jonas Salk's, instead of the greedy bastards running the show right now.

I agree to an extent, but opening the door for government price controls, in my opinion, isn’t an answer. Pharma spends millions researching and developing these new medicines. They deserve a time to recoup their money and make some profit, otherwise why spend the money on r&d in the first place? Patents have a length of time on them for a reason. After that you have generics.

I do understand your argument for older medicines that have been around a while. Unless the manufacturing prices are high the drug should be affordable.

Unfortunately, there is no utopia or perfection of anything in life. You have to take the good with the bad. In pharma’s case, and that of any publicly traded company, the purpose of said company is to make money and give investors a return on their investment. Only thing that could be done is for someone to start or purchase a pharma company with the intentions of creating medicines with a low profit margin.

 

[Akuj]

Not much of a political buff but I always find it funny how putting bullshit laws in place is swift as fuck when it comes to taking liberties from people however reversing then can take 50+ years with the excuse of "it's a very difficult decision".

 

[jJjburton]

I agree to an extent, but opening the door for government price controls, in my opinion, isn’t an answer. Pharma spends millions researching and developing these new medicines. They deserve a time to recoup their money and make some profit, otherwise why spend the money on r&d in the first place? Patents have a length of time on them for a reason. After that you have generics.

I do understand your argument for older medicines that have been around a while. Unless the manufacturing prices are high the drug should be affordable.

Unfortunately, there is no utopia or perfection of anything in life. You have to take the good with the bad. In pharma’s case, and that of any publicly traded company, the purpose of said company is to make money and give investors a return on their investment. Only thing that could be done is for someone to start or purchase a pharma company with the intentions of creating medicines with a low profit margin.

But these companies are doing the studies and research to get rich. They make the studies work by paying off people to make them work, leaving the real research out of the documents. If they did the research and studies putting out all the information, not just the info that would help them profit. I would agree. But they manipulate the findings for there benefit only.

 

[jJjburton]

I agree to an extent, but opening the door for government price controls, in my opinion, isn’t an answer. Pharma spends millions researching and developing these new medicines. They deserve a time to recoup their money and make some profit, otherwise why spend the money on r&d in the first place? Patents have a length of time on them for a reason. After that you have generics.

I do understand your argument for older medicines that have been around a while. Unless the manufacturing prices are high the drug should be affordable.

Unfortunately, there is no utopia or perfection of anything in life. You have to take the good with the bad. In pharma’s case, and that of any publicly traded company, the purpose of said company is to make money and give investors a return on their investment. Only thing that could be done is for someone to start or purchase a pharma company with the intentions of creating medicines with a low profit margin.

They would still make a ton of money if they cut all the prices in half. No need for
Lambos and 16 houses.

that said, for what they want, they are genius. They are making the money they want with no consequences to them.