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Well, if the US decided to not offer medicine on a realistic price point, other nations would do what the US did with Germany's Bayer, back when Anthrax was a c

Well, if the US decided to not offer medicine on a realistic price point, other nations would do what the US did with Germany's Bayer, back when Anthrax was a concern: Cancel the patent on the only Anthrax medicine available due to "national security". Don't blame the world for your Pharma executives needing a third private jet for their mistresses.

ffgjgf1 2y ago
> Cancel the patent on the only Anthrax medicine available due to "national security". Wouldn’t that discourage these companies from spending money to develop new drugs on their own in the future?
- DocTomoe 2y ago
  Didn't stop Bayer from doing R&D. They even ate the dead rat that was Monsanto.
  - ffgjgf1 2y ago
    Well it’s not something that happens regularly or even at all outside of very exceptional circumstances, so I’m not sure how can you claim that..