• @[email protected]
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    2011 months ago

    Wow I love science. I love that someone owns the exclusive rights to sell new drugs at whatever price they want

    • @scarabic
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      311 months ago

      This is why we need single payer healthcare. Let them charge whatever they want, but if there is only one buyer, that buyer can also pay whatever they want.

    • @Aleric
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      11 months ago

      That’s not science, that’s capitalism. Don’t forget that Dr. Jonas Salk refused to patent the polio vaccine, which is estimated to have a total value of over seven billion US dollars. Dr. Salk has always been a hero of mine.

      Shit bag lawyers from the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis later tried to see if they could patent it for themselves and luckily couldn’t. That’s capitalism for you. Fuck these guys.