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Or we can tell companies to charge amicably across the board else they risk losing patents on drugs sold to Americans at grossly inflated rates. A drug patent should give a company the right to sell/license the drug, not the right to gouge people with it.

Clearly this lacks details, but the concept would work after the first few nullified patents.

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Or we can tell companies to charge amicably across the board else they risk losing patents on drugs sold to Americans at grossly inflated rates. A drug patent should give a company the right to sell/license the drug, not the right to gouge people with it.

> Clearly this lacks details, but the concept would work after the first few nullified patents.

Of course it will "work", but are you sure that you'll be happy with the result?

Some other countries have said exactly that, the result being that folks in those countries are paying production costs but not R&D costs. If the drug companies can't recover R&D costs in the US, how do you think that the R&D costs will be paid?

If they don't think that they'll be able to recover R&D costs, what do you think that they'll do?

If you think that they can charge less and recover their costs, why don't you do so and drive them out of biz?

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