A joint study between Yale University, King’s College Hospital in London and Doctors Without Borders found a single shot could be made for just 89 cents.
No idea on the statistics but this does happen. I think the onus is on the government to negotiate for the IP though. Big pharma is going to try to get the best deal they can and most of the time that’s accepting tax dollars and then selling the drug at a more conservative markup to taxpayers. If the government contract was restructured to get the actual IP then they could offer another contract for production and get competing offers.
Sure. But who is the government going to negotiate for? The people putting money in their campaigns? Or the people who they’ve already trapped into voting for them?
No idea on the statistics but this does happen. I think the onus is on the government to negotiate for the IP though. Big pharma is going to try to get the best deal they can and most of the time that’s accepting tax dollars and then selling the drug at a more conservative markup to taxpayers. If the government contract was restructured to get the actual IP then they could offer another contract for production and get competing offers.
Sure. But who is the government going to negotiate for? The people putting money in their campaigns? Or the people who they’ve already trapped into voting for them?
Can’t argue with you here. I think this is perhaps the biggest issue we face in the United States. Our government is for sale.
I think so too. We can’t get any meaningful reform until we figure it out.