• HumanPenguin@feddit.uk
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    vor 23 Tagen

    Translation. We have less options to over charge the UK then any other nation.

    Wha twha we only make a lot of money.

  • 9point6@lemmy.world
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    vor 23 Tagen

    [We] would like to get rid of the clawback scheme … which charges us for our own success,

    Your own exploitation, you mean?

    Something like 95% of all meaningful pharmaceutical breakthroughs come from public academia

    More than anyone else, I really struggle to see any humanity in spin-doctors from the pharmaceutical industry. I’d say it’s pretty clearly inhumane to gouge the sick for profit.

  • brewery@feddit.uk
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    vor 21 Tagen

    Great news!

    Our response should be to negotiate on copyright / trademark laws or whatever allows their fake monopolies then. If you don’t sell it at a reasonable cost we’ll allow others to make it for us as genetics

    • Flax@feddit.uk
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      vor 23 Tagen

      Tbf, those new cancer drugs do work wonders.

      The article doesn’t mention experimental

      Although we shouldn’t fold to their demands.

  • zedcell@lemmygrad.ml
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    vor 21 Tagen

    I can see Streeting rolling over if the press play this story too much, which would mean saying good bye to price controls on medicines.

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      vor 8 Tagen

      Here I am two weeks in the future confirming my predictions, as the UK gov is accepting higher drug prices from the US to placate Trump.