I was referring specificlly to American-made drugs sold to other countries at a lower price than in the US. This is only because these socialist countries will accept no other way and threaten our drug companies patents if they wont sell at the fixed price.
I reiterate, if drug companies prices are artificially forced down, fewer new drugs will come to market and people will die!
If you're comfortable with that that's your problem. I'm not.
So your are a socialist?
Actually, the only countries that have made this threat are not the ones we buy drugs from, but some small third-world countries that want cheap HIV drugs. It's not likely that any such countries have the manufacturing prowess to copy US drugs even if they wanted to.
At the same time, it's also true that the pharma companies are asking for illegal copying by getting special cushy patent terms passed just for their own benefit. We're seeing shenanigans like minor changes in formulation just before a patent expires, done just to extend the term another umpteen years. If you thought the controversy over kids downloading music was rough, just wait until countries like China and Korea start cloning drugs they get tired of waiting for. The more pharma insists on being the RIAA of the human body, the more common folk will be cheering when their products get cloned.