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[Wed, 29 Oct 2003]
Safire on Drug Price Control
NYT's most famous (token?) conservative is
talking about how Americans
are subsidizing the prices of new drugs for others- in particular, why
should an American be able to get drugs from Canada for far cheaper.
Towards the end he starts to argue about how American companies can force
other countries to get rid of price control by restricting the amount of
drugs available to them.
Umm....in such a case, what's going to stop country X from just letting its generics make that drug and take away whatever money the American company was making ? If the Americans go to WTO for IP violations, well, they started it (by limiting supplies).
If I win, I will work for world peace
Quick, watch this before the headline goes away :-)). FT is just so wicked to Dubya, at times.