[livius]

Sounds reasonable to me. I think a lot of lower income black seniors are going to like this, and he should push it among them.

Companies deserve money for drugs they‘ve developed or promoted, but most of these have been out for years and are for common problems And already prescribed in generic form. So the companies probably don’t make a lot of money on them anyway, depending on the patent.

But we need to compensate R&D which is very expensive and can last for years. The pharm companies won’t and can’t do it unless they get compensated (to pay the microbiologists, in other words).

[GOWM]

“But we need to compensate R&D which is very expensive and can last for years. The pharm companies won’t and can’t do it unless they get compensated (to pay the microbiologists, in other words).”

Agreed. The question is should American consumers pay for ALL of the R&D or should the rest of the world help? I vote for the latter. Why should a Mexican or Canadian pay less?

[Theoria]

We already help to finance lots of drug research via public uni and dod, etc. Then drug companies turn around and charge us a wonderful price after we helped to subsidize the research. Joy.