[Svartalfiar]

All the manufacturer needs do is change 1 tiny thing in a drug, and the FDA will extend the Patent thus keeping generics off the market.

Easy solution to that. Sure, you get the new patent on the 'new' formula, but the original formula is still on the original patent's clock.

[GailA]

But that is not how it works, it prevents a new generic from being brought to market. Works same with crap like the Mesh, or the Chromium Poisoning on a hip replacement, just coat it, say it’s fixed. Won’t pay for fixing hip to Ceramic or remove the mesh, that is killing the patient.