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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (116308)	7/23/2009 12:56:10 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) of 541957

>>I don't follow the logic here? Shouldn't the goal to be to come up with the most effective drug? All of the low hanging fruit has been picked as far as drugs are concerned - so now it is extremely difficult to find any drug that is effective. If you now switch incentives to be just "cheap" drugs you remove a great deal of the incentive from biotechs. You might as well close their doors send scientist home and create government labs. That was tried before .........and was called USSR. << Steve - Let me try to make it clearer. I'm suggesting that we remove profits from sales as the main motivator for researchers, and supplant that with rewards from the government. Researchers would be rewarded for coming up with any effective drug, but would be rewarded proportionally more if that drug was also inexpensive to produce. You say that the low-hanging fruit has been picked, but remember that thus far, the bulk of the research has been motivated only by a desire for patentable compounds that can produce big profits. So that's what we've gotten. - Allen

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