[SoothingDave]

Oh, boy, another thread where FReepers can bemoan that the big, bad businessmen won't sell them stuff at a price they deem "fair."

Here's a solution to all the whiners: Start your own company and invent your own medications and then you can sell them for whatever price you like.

Patents are necessary. They are so fundamental that they are an actual enumerated power in the US Constitution.

[EEDUDE]

“Patents are necessary.”

And absolutely useless when you are dealing with people in countries with governments that won’t actively prosecute infringement cases.