This is quite false on many levels. The problem is actually created by the government in the first place. If you fix the length of the patents or eliminate the

This is quite false on many levels. The problem is actually created by the government in the first place. If you fix the length of the patents or eliminate the patents in the first place the cost of drugs will drop close to the cost to produce them. Monopolies are well studied in economics and the effects of monopoly pricing due to government granted patents are what we see here, this is a government created problem not a free market one.