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Is this to “slash” drug prices or to make them unavailable to certain people?
Will this include the $600 Narcan that Manchin’s daughter was pushing into every school and fire dept in America?
Welcome to Venezuela. Have a nice day.
This is about getting larger donations from drug companies leading into 2024.
“Ayn Rand, paging Ayn Rand. Please pick up the white courtesy phone.”
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Socialized medication.
Hmm could this be to take liability off Pfizer to clot shot?
Ah, hah! Now I understand the term “Slash and Burn!”
Slash the drug prices, burn the patent holder and the patients who need these new drugs to be developed.
Trump was already slashing prescription drug prices and approving experimental drugs for people who have debilitating illnesses.
Another government takeover of an industry in underway.
Zero chance this gets through the Supreme Court where it will undoubtedly end up. Just another blatant vote grab by an incompetent Administration.
“nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.”
- 5th Amendment
Everything Government touches, it makes worse
AND
Never underestimate Joe’s ability to really f*ck things up.
If the government will seize it anyway, I won't tell you how I made it and will take the secret to the grave.
How to make pharmacies look like Soviet grocery stores.
As much as I despise Big Pharma, this would be an unjust seizure of private intellectual property, and unconstitutional.
It’s one more step towards the total nationalization of health care.
A real insurrection happened on Jan 6 and it wasn’t by the political prisoners this current government claims it is. We are seeing who the real insurrectionists are every day when stuff like this happens.
All good communist dictators eventually seize the assets of bourgeoisie businesses.
“From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.”
Big pharma is going to sue like hell.
Who even knew the government had “march-in rights?” Turns out they were codified by Congress in 1980, but have never been successfully used. The bill was sponsored by Birch Bayh and Bob Dole, one of the original rinos.
Under the law as near as I can decipher, the government has the right under specified circumstances to require a patent holder to develop the patent, if they haven’t already; or to require licensing of the product to qualified applicants if it is necessary to maintain public safety, availability, etc. And if there are no applicants for licensing, the government can license itself. It will read like good politics to pander to the takers.
All very iffy, of course, but just your basic fascism at work.