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Lives and Profits in the Balance: The High Stakes of Medical Pat 7 years 10 months ago #23080

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Lives and Profits in the Balance: The High Stakes of Medical Patents
www.nytimes.com/2016/12/11/us/retro-repo...792&tntemail0=y&_r=0

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Lives and Profits in the Balance: The High Stakes of Medical Pat 7 years 10 months ago #23081

DrJames Offline Platinum Member Posts: 1980 Karma: 111 Thank you received: 7263	Hi Tommy, Thanks for posting this. Whatever your point of view, the problem for us - as in we, the people - is that even combining our fund (via tax or insurance) Big Pharma has pushed it so far we have reached to point of not being able to pay. I expect fiscal reality will see the pendulum swing back to somewhere better. YMMV The following user(s) said Thank You: mgalbrai, Gaj, Tommy, fitz