Posted on 11/30/2004 11:55:50 AM PST by NativeNewYorker
LOL I first thought it said "break AIDS PATIENT." I thought, "What'd he do"? :)
"Brazil is the country of the future and always
will be."
MV
Once you've killed the golden goose, you don't get any more eggs. Break this patent, and it'll be the last time Brazil ever gets any cutting-edge, horrendously-expensive-to-bring-to-market drugs.
Time to impose trade sanctions.
Indeed.
I wonder how much money it will save if the Brazillians have to fund all the research and development for new drugs all by themselves?
Let's "find" rust on their soybeans, and bacteria in their OJ.
No worries, the William J. Clinton Foundation will gladly pay for all the AIDS drugs Brazil ever may need.
lol
I'm sure the international lawyers at the un will step in with a majority of countries voting free healthcare as a right. Oops, that's pretty well already started, hasn't it? I'd say this will kill the golden goose for eveyone.
Anyone know anything about "Nature Medicine" the publication? Looks as if it is heavy on nature and pretty light on medicine.
NOW the screamers and bitchers and complainers of OUR drug prices can see why we pay so much for our drugs and canada/mexico/france/etc pay so much less.
BLACKMAIL~
If people could remember more than one month ago, about 5 - 10 years ago, france & germany decided to ignore international patent laws on medicine. Our cowardly politicians at the time (repubs & dems) made a backroom deal to keep the manufacture of these drugs here in the USA and told the drug companies to sell the drugs outside our borders at manufacture cost!
To keep the drug companies from going ballistic, the near-treasonous politicians told them they could make up the losses by charging the American citizens (the legal ones anyway).
So, remember this blackmail attempt by brazil - the story will fade away because they will be given the same deal and we, the legal citizens of the USA, will be paying for it again.
I doubt it. In order for that to occur, the rest of the world would have to stop producing cutting-edge, horrendously-expensive-to-bring-to-market drugs altogether.
Why doesn't that surprise me? Good golly, I am so grateful my graddad is an extremely smart man...he and my grandma are both on meds (grandma I believe takes three or four that are fairly expensive) and they still manage to take a traveling vacation every year. All this on a government pension, since my grandmother didn't work long enough to qualify for SS benefits. He's my hero...I try to follow in his footsteps planning wise. He is one of the smartest people I know.
How can we stop them?
I'm not disagreeing with you at all, but if all they have to do to "break" a patent is to buy, analyze & reproduce pills, then we are in for hard times indeed unless we are ready to impose unilateral sanctions on them that the whole world would oppose simply because we are the US.
I've gotten a very negative attitude since the nuclear disagreement with them.
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That's fine, on a side note the US needs to cut out it's corporate welfare program of funding private pharmaceuitical companies that turn around and jack their customers.
If I ran a drug company I wouldn't bother to develope AID Drugs.
Life saving drugs are no longer r&d'd to save lives. They are r&d'd for profit. If there is no profit, dropping dead is the preferred treatment, worldwide.
Helping your lingering, slow, agonizing death last as long as profitable is now extremely possible. IOW, they can't cure you, but they can keep you from actually dying for almost as long as the bills are paid.
Brazil obviously could care less about research and development, but bill paying has caught their attention.
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