Why? Strategically, you don't want those drug people as enemies. They have an extremely powerful lobby in D.C. and many "reforms" that make sense in software would get them up in arms. Choose your battles.
>Strategically, you don't want those drug people as enemies.
Oh, actually, yes, can we please ream the m*****f*****s already? To talk about a group of people like that, suggests that they wield far too much power. It gets worse when you learn about what they actually do. Enough already.
An "extremely powerful lobby" is not so scary when you outlaw the type of corporate lobbying they engage in. And the American people don't have to let you have a business.
I'm not averse to looking at alternative models for providing revenue to the drug discovery and testing infrastructure (the current model of patents is flawed as hell), but if you like new medications like the COVID vaccines then you have to respect the important of protecting the incentive to create them.
I don't believe that, but I won't convince you. Instead, I invite you to try to convince yourself. Imagine a world where drug discovery happens without patents. Talk it out, falsify your propositions as you go, see if you can come up with something workable.
"Remove the drug patent system" = Upset Kanye
"Replace the drug patent system with a new way to encourage drug discovery besides the honor system" = Smiling Kanye
>People who can't afford existing drugs
>People who can't get corporations to develop drugs for their conditions because they wouldn't be "profitable"
>People who can't make their farm's business model work even though they're fully capable of growing the crops people want and getting them to market
and so on. But thank you for being my daily encounter with Better Things Aren't Possible Guy.
Face the reality that the status quo is unsustainable. Throw off your wishful thinking that things can go on like this without repercussion.
If you substantially screwed with that without a very careful and thorough knowledge of the consequences, drug discovery could grind to a halt.
Remember, this is an industry that's more than happy to just stop making drugs and let all the sufferers die if it's not profitable enough.
and now they are taking a different literal anticoagulant as anticoagulant.
w00t!
Quick question- will a massive dose of apixaban kill a rat the same as a massive dose of an anticoagulant will?
mRNA's are novel, on this we can agree, and I have no issue with their use.
Other sectors of the drug market are less novel and more about slightly different for the purposes of starting the clock on drug copyrights and licencing again.
I don't really have a good alternative though.