“We’ll make it clear that when drug companies won’t sell taxpayer funded drugs at reasonable prices, we will be prepared to allow other companies to provide those drugs for less,”
That is absolutely the dumbest idea I have heard on this young day.
You do that, idiots, and see how many new drugs get produced.
Big Pharma has a lot of bad elements but it is one of the most robust drug innovators in the world. Kill their profit incentive and they will simply not but the $$’s into new research. I sure as hell wouldn’t.
“We’ll make it clear that when drug companies won’t sell taxpayer funded drugs at reasonable prices, we will be prepared to allow other companies to provide those drugs for less.”
I’m astonished that these drug companies were ever allowed to keep their patents in the first place if the U.S. government was funding the research to develop them.