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How does that increases competition? And you turn around the idea at at the end: you say it would be more profitable to make certain drugs, and then you say it would lower the prices , which will make (obviously) less profitable to make/sell those same drugs. So which one is it?

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> How does that increases competition?

See the comment I already made: more drugs can be brought to the market because the cost is lower.

> you say it would be more profitable to make certain drugs, and then you say it would lower the prices , which will make (obviously) less profitable to make/sell those same drugs. So which one is it?

Lower production costs increases profits and price competition lowers profits (passing savings onto the consumer).

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