[joesmo]

Another casualty of our idiotic patent laws meeting our idiotic health care laws. Every single law is designed to improve profits at the cost of lives and in America, most people are totally ok with that despite what the article claims. Then they justify it by saying that we wouldn't have companies to make drugs if we forced them to have reasonable prices. Our idiot legislators really think that you can get rid of drug dealers by keeping prices high? I cannot imagine such just cruelty and hate driven by greed. If the patent program ended tomorrow or was severely reduced in scope (duration of patent), we'd have so much competition (and therefore affordable prices) in this space, it'd start to overshadow our current tech explosion. If we allow Medicare to negotiate prices, we'd have much more affordable prices.

The judicial death penalty we impose on criminals might be defendable ethically, but the death penalty we impose on our own citizens due to greed and cruelty is indefensible, cruel, and monstrous. Just so a few beyond-rich people can get even richer. Disgusting.