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?
Comment on US sets policy to seize patents of government-funded drugs if price deemed too high
God_Is_Love@reddthat.com 6 months agoMan 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
Not_mikey@lemmy.world 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.