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    Tommy
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    Lives and Profits in the Balance: The High Stakes of Medical Patents
    http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/11/us/retro-report-medical-patents-profits.html?emc=edit_tnt_20161211&nlid=45954792&tntemail0=y&_r=0


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    dope-on-a-rope.jpgDr James
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    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

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