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[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 13 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

Alternative: send Vertex Pharmaceuticals' board to the guillotine and make the medication available for pennies per 50-milligram pill (at cost) or free (publicly funded).

[–] huppakee@lemm.ee 3 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Yes that will get people to do research and make new meds available. /s

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 19 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (2 children)

Should I have added "nationalize it and make future research funded and owned by the public"? (A lot of public funding already goes to medical research, but the profits get privatized.)

Private corporations researching medications so they can price gouge the chronically ill through a copyright-enforced monopoly isn't the only way to do medical research.

[–] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 20 hours ago

That's the way.

[–] huppakee@lemm.ee -1 points 19 hours ago

The public is definitely not benefitting enough from the research they fund als also the price gouging at the cost of sick people is very problematic, but I'm not in favour of beheading bad people. But I understand that the longer decision makers continue to allow these bad people to do these bad things, the more likely it becomes the guillotine makes an appearance.

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago

Found the corporate bootlicker.