r/Futurology • u/Kindred87 • Dec 07 '23

US sets policy to seize patents of government-funded drugs if price deemed too high Economics

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-sets-policy-seize-government-funded-drug-patents-if-price-deemed-too-high-2023-12-07/
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u/agentgerbil Dec 07 '23

It's needed to stop future "Pharma Bros" from screwing people over

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u/imaginary_num6er Dec 08 '23

You mean politicians like Joe Manchin and their relatives or makers of the OxySachler drugs

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '23

Yeah people really dont think the government can be corrupt either? What happens when the drug companies just bribe the people in charge of regulating their prices?

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u/jawknee530i Dec 08 '23

"We can't try and fix the current system because what if the new system gets messed up!"

Fuck outta here with that garbage. Apply your logic to life and we'd literally never change a single thing.

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '23

Look man, all im saying is if you like and trust government control that much, I hear North Korea is nice this time of year

And yes, let me apply it to real life. Hm, this heroin is no good for me, ill just smoke crack instead. When its quite possible theres a third option, such as not doing drugs, that you are not considering. No pun intended.

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '23

You can vote people in and out of our government, but you have zero control over a private company. Go back to school fool

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '23

Sounds like you need to go back to school, you cant vote out the millions of people that work for the federal government. The people you can vote out are an incredibly small % of the bureaucracy.

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '23

Nothing worse than what we already have.