>The science that these drugs are based on was given to the public domain for free by scientists all around the world throughout history. Lets see if these gree

>The science that these drugs are based on was given to the public domain for free by scientists all around the world throughout history. Lets see if these greedy companies are willing to pay those scientists whose results they freely use. The scientists are normally working for hire, which means everything they discover belongs to the company or university that employs them, and universities do maintain and aggressively defend large patent portfolios. Very little of this is "given to the public domain for free". Also, drug targets are a dime a dozen. That's the easy part. What's difficult and expensive is getting a drug through the regulatory process. If drug companies aren't going to see a profit that will all have to be publicly funded.