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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: geode00 who wrote (263554)5/14/2008 12:14:21 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
You fail to understand that if Walmart is your only source for staples

You fail to understand, or choose to ignore, the fact that such a situation is rarely, or if your really strict about "only source", never, the case.

No, providing free samples is advertising and they may or may not benefit anyone. In fact, many drugs hurt people and sometimes kill them.

Yes free or purchased drugs can harm and kill, but they help and heal to a greater extent.

At any rate, these are not full courses of drugs for poor people

In some cases they are.

Even if "drugs such as antibiotics are not coming to market because it is more profitable to buy politicians, try and extend patents or ply doctors with perks and freebies" was true, that doesn't imply "The profit motive PREVENTS much needed new drugs from being developed."

New drugs do get developed. Research and development spending on these new drugs is massive. If the percent of this money going in to antibiotics is relatively small, that's because the other drugs are seen as a better investment. But the drugs that do get created get created mostly because of the profit motive. Take away the profit and no one is going to pour all those billions in to drug development and testing.
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