Man that’s a really important piece of information, it should be in the article title. The greediest companies are not the tax payer funded ones
Comment on US sets policy to seize patents of government-funded drugs if price deemed too high
spudwart@spudwart.com 6 months ago
This only covers “Taxpayer funded drugs”. apparently.
God_Is_Love@reddthat.com 6 months ago
JillyB@beehaw.org 6 months ago
A good analysis would be to determine what portion of the drug market would fall in this category. I imagine the amount of drug R&D done with some amount of federal dollars is pretty high.
If this policy has enough teeth to scare pharma corps, then it will probably change their behaviors. They could decide that they need to use minimal federal funding which could slow drug development. I wonder if this policy (or others) is meant to address this potential.
Not_mikey@lemmy.world 6 months ago
No, the greediest companies take all the tax payer funding and research they can before patenting it and pretending they made it, see moderna. Why pay for your research when you can get the taxpayers to do it?
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 6 months ago
That’s a huge portion of them. Taxpayers help out a lot at early levels of drug discovery with things like public universities and research grants.
EatYouWell@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Which is why research papers should be provided for free if they were funded with tax money.