I suppose I do think it would be easy enough to bring the price of medical prescriptions down. Just make it so a lot of of us could produce them. Yes, I think it is as simple as that.
Just make it so many of us could run out and make them.
The translation, of course, is that regulations have to be rolled away. I don't know if you have to be licensed to produce prescription drugs, but why? As long as you are producing a quality product, let that be the only requirement. Let the FDA test any drug it will, and take it off the market if it doesn't meet standards.
But, other than that, no regulation.
I'm not completely sold on this proposal, but I really lean toward it. The negative, is that if you take away all regulation, then you take away patents. Can we do that? Would it discourage the drug companies from coming up with new drugs because as soon as they developed something, someone would copy them?
It might be we would need to keep some force in our patent laws, while taking some of the force out of them. Or, leave the patent laws alone, and simply scrape the regulations away for drugs once the patents expires.
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