Quote:
|
Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk
Yes, but when does the profit margin stop after development? There must be a better way to bring down the costs of medicine and not just hang the cost across the board on the assumption of research.
|
Jeez, I leave for a little bit to catch up some killflags and a couple pages sprout up before I can answer the question
The profit margin to make up for development should end when the cost of development is recouped. This amount of time depends on the drug and the cost of development. The better way, in my opinion, is to require the companies that manufacture generics after the brand period to pay "royalties" to the company that developed the drug and require all companies to sell the drug for the same price after the brand period, but then you're talking about the government trying to police it, so the cost would go up even more (in taxes to pay the government police).