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[–]wizzwizz4 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

a scorpion vaccine

Despite scorpion toxin being useful in vaccines, I think you meant "antivenom".

To address your actual point, wouldn't the government paying for the medicines mean that the profit margins go down? Because they'd be bulk-buying and able to order from the people charging less evil prices for life-saving medicines, in bulk?

I totally agree that they're charging too much, just because they can – which is another reason I support the abolition of medicine patents. Money from taxing medicines – which would be cheaper with actual competition, could go towards funding public-domain development. Or another, better plan.

[–]SundogsPlace 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I don't support the abolition of any patents; I'm not a Communist, and doing so will eliminate motivation to invent, or research cures, and treatments. The scorpion vaccine is just one I know of where by once it hits the USA's oligarchy of control, the price sky rockets.

I'm actually anti Big Pharma, Big AMA, and Allopathic medicine. It's a total crock of horse crap. There's many accounts of when doctors strike, the death rates go down; now the debate there, is whether it's due to people not dying from elective surgeries, or seriously from the doctors not working.

[–]wizzwizz4 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Eliminating patents will eliminate motivation to invent, or research the kinds of thing that pharmaceutical companies can profit from. There are classes of medicines that they don't research at all, because they can't profit from them before the patent expires. Replacing the patents with another motivation, e.g. funding independent research groups, is conceivably a viable strategy.

You've got what seem to me to be contradictory beliefs.

[–]SundogsPlace 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It's not the patent per se, it's the regulations that keep many people out of the game in the first place. It's the governmental authorities also blocking alternative competition to the medical industrial complex.

Delete the patents, whoopie! They still have their own internal departments steering how the drugs are used, or approved. Take Ru-486, originally designed, and created for cancer; the drug had amazing abilities to stop cell replication-cancer growth....

What do they do with the drug??? it's the morning after pill.

All you do by removing patents, is remove any motivation.

And on this note, just because someone has a 'degree', a 'doctorate', or more, does that really mean their qualified? Absolutely not; we can hash through countless examples of malpractice, and even bad drugs that were pushed for no reason; Seroquel is a great example. The man behind this drug, and the dangers associated had manipulated it into for a short time, a drug handed out like SSRI's, or Statins.

bah.

[–]wizzwizz4 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thanks for explaining. (I hate being naïve.)