Gouging the Sick: Hightower on TPP

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17. Again, you need to study drug prices in poor countries. I certainly can see how failed ng to

recognize patent drugs, and essentially counterfeiting them, would result in lower prices there, higher prices here, and higher prices on other drugs to cover research costs. Stiglitz has lost more than a step or two, if your post is how he left it.

I'd love for our government to revise drug laws. But, until we decide to pony up the upfront investment for research and the costs of bringing a drug to market (through increased taxes, which we need for other thing too), new effective drugs are going to he expensive. All these self -styled progressives, aren't going to pay the upfront costs, that's clear.