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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (61097)	3/17/2005 4:44:24 AM
From: energyplay	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Of course, after the patents run out, the gravy train stops, and things sell for $8.00 So the Pharma guys get to either - Find a cure or fix for something else...(means work + risk) Or run really stupid ads about "the new purple pill" (which is slightly more effective for maybe 5% of the people than the old purple pill) Give the money to the shareholders as dividends Or if all else fails, buy a drug from some biotech guys. ;-) This has worked out exactly as the framers of the constituion intended. Incentivize the hell out of people by offering a temporary monopoly, then the invention becomes a public good.

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (61097)	3/17/2005 3:33:39 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Ray, Americans aren't being ripped off by Big Pharma. You are quite entitled to start a business, invent [or buy] some intellectual property, and start selling in competition with those Big Pharmas. If it's so easy, and profitable, why do you suppose more people aren't doing it? I don't have any money invested in big, or little, Pharma. There's more to be made [I hope] in mobile cyberspace. It's more useful too than making some chemical soup to keep a self-destructive old person alive for a few more years. Many diseases are self-inflicted. Maybe most. Albeit through ignorance rather than deliberate self-abuse. Smoking, obesity, booze, melanoma, heart disease, stroke, asthma, stomach and colon cancer, injury, etc. etc., all self-inflicted, [it took me decades to figure out asthma - environmental allergy and nutritional status]. Go on, start a Big Pharma. Or buy shares in one. Mqurice