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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (494949)	11/18/2003 4:12:47 PM
From: Dr. Voodoo	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

I can't see any reason to treat the US pharmaceutical industry any differently than other industries can you? It costs 200-800 million dollars to get a drug through the FDA. Theres 200-800 million reasons, and our companies invented it. If you want to rip off IP from around the world, kiss virtually every booming industry in america goodbye!!! EVERY SINGLE ONE!!! Further, there is no open market as you have described!!! It won't ever happen. It is a fantasy you have cooked up. The FDA has to approve the drugs that are made generic. You can't make generic drugs for things that are patented. You can't rip off IP in the US. The materials cost the same in India that they cost in China. They are getting made there now!!!!! I'm done educating you Lizzie. I'm sorry if you don't get it.

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (494949)	11/20/2003 1:33:46 PM
From: bentway	Respond to of 769670

<we've got this "patent law" problem in virtually all IP industries including the film industry and software wrt developing nations india and china, and I can't see any reason to treat the US pharmaceutical industry any differently than other industries can you? Other than pharma are Bush donors and hollywood is not, I mean.> I don't really know how to feel about it. As a diabetic who needs drugs to live, I resent being gouged as an American. On the other hand, I think Indian companies that reverse-engineer drugs and bear no development costs are wrong too. I think the answer is somewhere in the middle. When I see these drug ads on TV, for like "the purple pill", I get depressed about humankind.