Pharmaceutical Co.'s Need To Produce A Vaccine(s) for Ebola, Even If No Profits Can Be Procured

10/16/2014 | Laissez-Faire Capitalist

[Laissez-faire capitalist]

The Obama administration has failed us.

With that in mind, potential treatments/vaccines for Ebola are being worked on and tested as we speak, and despite the lack of ability to pay for any potential vaccine on the part of almost all western Africans, pharmaceutical companies should develop said vaccine(s) (if at all possible) and distribute them free of cost to those who cannot afford them.

While I do support huge profits to be made by pharmaceutical companies, I believe that there are exceptions to the rule, and I do believe that this is the time and instance for this very exception.

[Yashcheritsiy]

Yep, and who is paying for it? What will the company get in return? Was it the government that contracted your company? If so, you DO know where that money comes from right?

As far as our discussion is concerned, these are irrelevant.

You said that "nobody would do that." I quite clearly pointed out to you that "somebody already is."

I'm right, you're wrong. End of story. As for who is paying for it, etc., that is the business of these two companies, not yours, to decide.