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HIV ‘vaccine’ could be made for just $40 a year for every patient (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Why should drug companies be profitable at all? Seems like the perfect thing to be nationalized and/or even considered a basic necessity.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Governments do have the option of simply buying the patent from the drug company (no communism necessary) but Americans have rejected socialized medicine for Americans. I don't expect that they would want to subsidize medicine for poor Africans.