You're parroting industry propaganda with no basis in fact whatsoever. I pity you for being so deeply invested in an ideology that trumps self-preservation.
As for patent protection: something needs to change there as well, because too damn much of the research budget goes into drugs that are no improvement over existing ones, purely to take market share from a competitor or replace drugs whose patent protection is running out.
source (look at the 10th and 11th paragraph): http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2004/jul/15/the-tru...