To: maui_hawaii
Very good. But you left out the part about the patent expiring in 7 years. That's all the time the manufacturer gets to recover their costs and any profit. After that, anybody gets the right to manufacture the drug with NO R&D costs.
To: <1/1,000,000th%
Patents expire in 17/20 years. Not 7.
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