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Perhaps more countries should follow Thailand's approach:

    On January 25, 2007, Thailand’s interim government issued compulsory licenses–which require 
    manufacturers to license generic versions of their patented drugs–for two Western medicines: 
    Kaletra, an advanced anti-AIDS medicine manufactured by Abbott; and Plavix, a blood-thinning 
    treatment to help prevent heart disease, produced by the France-based Sanofi-Aventis and U.S. 
    firm Bristol-Myers Squibb. These attacks were preceded in November 2006 by a violation of 
    Merck’s patent on the anti-AIDS drug Stocrin.[5] The government threatened to break 
    patents on eleven more drugs.[6] Explaining the rationale behind Thailand’s decision, health 
    minister Mongkol Na Songkhla said that “the move is permissible under international trade 
    rules in the event of national public health emergencies. . . . We have to do this because we 
    don’t have enough money to buy safe and necessary drugs for the people under the government’s 
    universal health scheme.”[7]
Source: http://www.aei.org/publication/thailand-and-the-drug-patent-...

Perhaps "evergreening" is also an issue in the USA that might keep prices high for a long time?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3680578/



The above quote, for mobile users:

> On January 25, 2007, Thailand’s interim government issued compulsory licenses–which require manufacturers to license generic versions of their patented drugs–for two Western medicines: Kaletra, an advanced anti-AIDS medicine manufactured by Abbott; and Plavix, a blood-thinning treatment to help prevent heart disease, produced by the France-based Sanofi-Aventis and U.S. firm Bristol-Myers Squibb. These attacks were preceded in November 2006 by a violation of Merck’s patent on the anti-AIDS drug Stocrin.[5] The government threatened to break patents on eleven more drugs.[6] Explaining the rationale behind Thailand’s decision, health minister Mongkol Na Songkhla said that “the move is permissible under international trade rules in the event of national public health emergencies. . . . We have to do this because we don’t have enough money to buy safe and necessary drugs for the people under the government’s universal health scheme.”


Quoting like this makes it impossible to read on mobile. Not your fault but “speech marks” are fine.


Are you using an app such as Materialistic or Hews, or just using your browser? For what it's worth I don't recall any problems reading quote blocks on Materialistic.


Like most people, I am reading on a mobile browser and cannot read this quote.




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