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Authored by: Wol on Wednesday, April 03 2013 @ 11:38 AM EDT |
Actually, if you LOOK, I think you'll find patents are just as big a problem in
medicine, too.
The OVERWHELMING majority of medicine patents are simply
"evergreening" a drug that's been available for 40, 50 years or more.
Find me a patent covering a real genuine NEW drug and I'll be surprised. Yes
there are a few, I know, but not many.
The big problem is that drugs are difficult to bring to market quickly, and if
something goes wrong it can be horrendous.
The real tragedy is when (and this is a real example) drugs get banned because
they occasionally kill people, but the *normal* use case was to treat terminally
ill people to improve their quality of life!
Sort out a sane and rational way of testing and trialling drugs, that doesn't
penalise the drugs companies for actually trying to help people, and we might
get a lot more innovation at far less cost without the need for patents.
Why NOT trial possibly life-saving treatments on the terminally ill? In the name
of all that's sane how can we ban that because it *could* kill people? Yet we
do!
Cheers,
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, April 03 2013 @ 12:30 PM EDT |
Then I'd be willing to listen. A straight statement without proof...
Wayne
http://madhatter.ca
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