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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: i-node who wrote (8188)8/12/2009 1:25:39 PM
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Perhaps the length of a patent should be determined, in part, by the number of R&D dollars spent to obtain it, something like that. If a drug company can get only a 5 year patent for a drug they can't recoup the investment in, why bother?

But consider, are you creating a perverse incentive to spend more in developing the drug...
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