Post #4248 by sheila727 on the US Policy board

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I've seen examples of predatory pricing on drugs, and I'm fairly sure that Pharma has a hand in your pocket that you should worry about - not Bideen and Newsom.

One of the things that Pharma does to keep the $$$$$ flowing in is to maintain a new drug's patent as long as possible. That translates to a bag of tricks that enable patent extension. The original patent is for roughly 10 years once a drug enters the market. Then the company all too often will make a minimal change in the drug that enables it to prevent the availability of competition.....generics.....and strangle the market for another 5 years.

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