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WillowIX · 01-14-2003, 03:57 PM

I think I´ll stay out of the tort discussion.

Some notes only. Prices of medications are too high as stated in here. But medical research companies are not researching to save lives you know. They´re in it for the money. A very good example is AIDS and Africa. AZT was first developed in Germany I think. The drug is now in the hands of an American company. All people know that African nations tend to be poor and that AIDS is on the verge of wiping out the African population. Cheaper copies of AZT was rapidly starting to appear in Africa. And then what happened? Well some American drug companies startes to race for who will be first to stop this. Medicine that is VERY expensive here, suddenly appeared at a tenth of the cost. So the old "it´s sooo expensive to manufacter" reply was suddenly not useful anymore. But they were still losing money and, hey, what´s losing money compared to a couple of 40 million people dying every year.

Note: I believ African nations now have the right to manufacter their own copies of AIDS drugs at a much lower cost.

01-14-2003, 03:57 PM	#19
WillowIX Apophis Join Date: July 10, 2001 Location: By a big blue lake, Canada Age: 51 Posts: 4,628	I think I´ll stay out of the tort discussion. Some notes only. Prices of medications are too high as stated in here. But medical research companies are not researching to save lives you know. They´re in it for the money. A very good example is AIDS and Africa. AZT was first developed in Germany I think. The drug is now in the hands of an American company. All people know that African nations tend to be poor and that AIDS is on the verge of wiping out the African population. Cheaper copies of AZT was rapidly starting to appear in Africa. And then what happened? Well some American drug companies startes to race for who will be first to stop this. Medicine that is VERY expensive here, suddenly appeared at a tenth of the cost. So the old "it´s sooo expensive to manufacter" reply was suddenly not useful anymore. But they were still losing money and, hey, what´s losing money compared to a couple of 40 million people dying every year. Note: I believ African nations now have the right to manufacter their own copies of AIDS drugs at a much lower cost. __________________ Confuzzled by nature.