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I firmly believe that health is a right to anyone, whether they can pay for it or not.

However one must also remember that R&D for drugs is extremely costly and risky. I am a biotechnology student, and I have had some experience with lab work: everything costs a fortune. It's not that uncommon to burn some thousand dollars if you flunk an experiment, and those things happen. And if you get them right, the cost isn't any lower. Take a peek if you wish to the prices on the catalogues of stratagene, biorad, sigma aldritch and so on. You will notice most of those thing cost more than your wedding ring.

So the point is: if you force companies to sell their products at unreasonably low prices, they will stop researching, and you will stop gettind brand new drugs designed to save your life. On the other side, if you let them do whatever they want, aspirin will rise to 100 dollars a tab.

My opinion is that some kind of public institute should monitor the production processes - it's actually quite easy to estimate the production cost of anything - and punish exploitations. Who should monitor the institute, well, that's another matter... And what does exactly exploit mean?...