[reformed_dem]

Boy, she's on a roll.

[Vaquero]

its simple arithmatic.

if you tell the drug companies that the are not going to make a profit on their investment of research...then they wont do the research and the drugs wont be found to cure the diseases......

....the socialists who wish for new drugs will find themselves wanting.

[Bob Buchholz]

Wonder if she is in favor of dropping all copywrite laws.
How about if every publishing house could just copy a new book from another house and sell them for ten cents on the dollar the day after they were published? Think that may just do away with those 8 million dollar guarantees?

[LIConFem]

Wonderful. Let's kill innovation and strangle the biotech firms that cure diseases, while flooding the market with cheap knock-off drugs.

[KarlInOhio]

However, let's see how high she jumps when the RIAA tells her that college kids are stealing music. In the 'Rats eyes, the music industry must have every bit of revenue available to produce their latest "pop tart" (now that Britney is crashing). Drug companies don't need that protection for their new products.

[passionfruit]

The article is vague on the specifics of how this is supposed to work. I am actually interested in this for a very selfish reason. I am a migraine sufferer. I take Imitrex for the migraines and have for at least 15 years. I have been hoping for a generic equivalent to this drug. During the years I have taken this, I have had insurers refuse to fill it unless I jump through various hoops that they set up to make it as difficult and expensive and time consuming as possible.

I thought that the drug manufacturer had a monopoly for a certain number of years, and after that period, it could be manufactured as a generic drug. Unfortunately, the drug manufacturers will wait till the end, and make a tiny change to their drug to restart the clock on their monopoly.

Something should be done to ensure that the law works as it is intended, and let medications can go generic after a certain amount of time with their monopoly. The drug companies should have a monopoly for a certain amount of time to recoup their R&D, and to make a healthy profit, but after that period of time, let it go generic!