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minus-squareNocturnalMorning@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down3·4 months agoWhy should drug companies be profitable at all? Seems like the perfect thing to be nationalized and/or even considered a basic necessity.
minus-squareArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·edit-24 months agoGovernments do have the option of simply buying the patent from the drug company (no communism necessary) but Americans have rejected socialized medicine for Americans. I don’t expect that they would want to subsidize medicine for poor Africans.
Why should drug companies be profitable at all? Seems like the perfect thing to be nationalized and/or even considered a basic necessity.
Governments do have the option of simply buying the patent from the drug company (no communism necessary) but Americans have rejected socialized medicine for Americans. I don’t expect that they would want to subsidize medicine for poor Africans.