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lhooq

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35. "But drug development is expensive so we have to charge ...

Thu May 23, 2013, 07:43 PM

May 2013

that much .." so Pharma will say.

But we (US tax payers) pay for much of the initial drug development, that which is done by the National Cancer Institute. That includes pre-clinical development and frequently phase I clinical trials. As the article says,

If cancer research is paid 80 percent by taxpayers’ money, and if most of the discoveries in cancer drugs are made in the United States,

So, I wonder, why isn't the NCI more aggressive in selling and licensing drugs they initially develop to Pharma? As it is, NCI research is a gift to Pharma, and Pharma turns around and screws us with high drug prices. Some deal! Doesn't the head of the NCI, the NIH, and HHS understand this? (Maybe they all own stock in Pharma.)

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