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

[Prof. Michael H. Davis]

What about if we ALL invent drugs as we do with all of them through funded =
research? Do we all get our money back? Do we all share in the profits? Gat=
es is assuming a private sector in the most heavily subsidized area of our =
economy.


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-----Original Message-----
From: James Love <james.love@keionline.org>
Date: Thursday, Apr 24, 2008 3:01 pm
Subject: [Ip-health] Bill Gates:  "I think if you invent drugs, you should =
be able to  charge for them"
To: Reply-    james.love@keionline.orgTo: ip-health <ip-health@lists.essent=
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This is from a wired story two days ago.  Jamie
>
>http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/04/bill-gates-what.html
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>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 - t 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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