[GunboatDiplomat]

I think it would make more sense to simply have a government owned corporation who's sole purpose is to produce generic drugs on which the patent has expired.

[maxerickson]

The market for drugs like that generally functions quite well. Like a cash price of ~$5 a month well.

(The dustup over Martin Shkreli raising the price of Daraprim only happened because there were very few users of the drug)

[cheriot]

Some drugs, like the cure for Hepatitis C, need to be available more widely before the patent runs out. It's a cure and only people that can come up with $84,000 dollars.