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  • ranzispa@mander.xyz
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    1 day ago

    I also hate the system (and I work in research, meaning that my work directly goes into the profits of these companies) however it does eventually lead to better drugs getting developed and through the years their prices do decrease steeply once the patent terminates.

    I hope we came up with a better system to handle this.

    I’d like a public European pharmaceutical company to exist, that would solve many of these problems.

    • blaggle42@lemmy.today
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      We should gamify it. We should socialize the medicine, so everyone can afford it - I mean, come on- but then:

      If you work in a lab which creates a life saving drug - you get a ticker tape parade through every fucking city in the USA - you get a bronze statue in the “park of medical heroes.” Everyone knows you as “the man who fucking cured HSHBRHF variant 4x.”