[Ip-health] Bill Gates: "I think if you invent drugs, you should be able to charge for them"

[James Love]

This is from a wired story two days ago.  Jamie

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/04/bill-gates-what.html

The core problem seemed to intrigue Gates, who offered it as "a
paradox": If a drug company ever invents a treatment for something like
malaria, it'd be immediately beset by calls to give the drug away. "So
they choose never to work in those areas," he noted sympathetically.
"The current incentive system isn=E2=80=99t doing it."

"I think if you invent drugs, you should be able to charge for them," he
said, adding with a shrug: "That may seem radical."

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