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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

If you want a corporation to put its full effort into a drug, have congress double the patent life. And limit liability like they do for the nuclear industry.

Have a competition like the XPize.

Your ideas are goofy.


64 posted on 10/16/2014 10:51:34 AM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: Drango

Vaccines aren’t subject to patent expiration. They are considered ‘formulations’ like Coke or Pepsi.

Small molecule drugs like statins, antibiotics and other ‘pills’ and drugs have a 7yr patent expiration.

This is one reason new diseases are targeted with vaccines rather than drugs.

That and vaccines are also indemnified. You can’t sue the company for any issues with them.

Vaccines are a no lose proposition for pharma if they get approved. No expiration, no lawsuits. It’s why we have so many new vaccines under development right now.


67 posted on 10/16/2014 10:55:03 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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