Pharmaceutical patents need to be reworked. It's nice for pharma companies to be able to make money, but it's not acceptable to have life-saving drugs locked be

Pharmaceutical patents need to be reworked. It's nice for pharma companies to be able to make money, but it's not acceptable to have life-saving drugs locked behind a paywall and indiscriminately allow people to die for two decades, based on any criteria which the patent holder may set up, just to make sure a corporation makes large profits on successful products. Don't mind patent terms on inventions that are non-essential, but we need to treat medicines differently. The public needs to recognize that IP protection is a gift we give authors to make their authorship more feasible, and that they cannot hold the life and health of either the populace or the culture hostage for their exclusive profitability.