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Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
Why is it so important that we ensure that pharma earns big (or "competitive"*) profits?
* "competitive" with what?
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It's not ensuring the profit, its keeping from government ensuring the lack therof. There are very few drugs that are truly monopolies. Most have competitive or parallel drugs. If the price is too high, business will go elsewhere.
But if a company invests in labs and scientist and developing drugs that will be thrown away in 99% of the cases, it need some decent ROI to justify continuing.
