Originally posted by Lost Student
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Back to the conversation at hand - I understand how free market works. And I understand that the drug companies need to make money on the stuff they've discovered that works in order to do research and development and keep making new stuff that works.
So how do we strike a balance between the drug companies keeping some income coming in from sales of their drugs overseas, with needing to charge enough to do R&D, with not JUST increasing costs in the US and doing all of your R&D on the backs of the American patient, with recognizing that you can't charge in other countries what you charge here because it would be cost prohibitive.
You can't just give the stuff away. But you can't let poor people die because they can't pay for it. Can you?
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