Outrageous.  Sorry to the see the NY Times not interview economist Dean Baker, who has written until blue in the face about the abuses of the drug patent system and related intellectual property regimes.   Did I miss the profit rate on $114 billion in revenue for one company since 2016?  Would like to see the breakdown on that.  We want to reward invention and scientific based R & D, but I also have to wonder whether any US federal grants, loans or research money was funnelled through the massive National Institute of Health system of grants, which totaled $ 624 billion over 35 years since 1976, 624 billion to the pharmabiotech sector, according to economist Marianna Mazzucuto  in her 2015 book "The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs Private Myths."  Not only did the federal money go out to the private sector, but no "returns" on the money was negotiated - small percentage on a successful drug, stock ownership and so on.  On top of that unfairness, we read this gaming of the system...From a left of center perspective, not Mr. Trump's, the system sure looks "rigged" to me.

Outrageous.  Sorry to the see the NY Times not interview economist Dean Baker, who has written until blue in the face about the abuses of the drug patent system and related intellectual property regimes.   Did I miss the profit rate on $114 billion in revenue for one company since 2016?  Would like to see the breakdown on that.  We want to reward invention and scientific based R & D, but I also have to wonder whether any US federal grants, loans or research money was funnelled through the massive National Institute of Health system of grants, which totaled $ 624 billion over 35 years since 1976, 624 billion to the pharmabiotech sector, according to economist Marianna Mazzucuto  in her 2015 book "The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs Private Myths."  Not only did the federal money go out to the private sector, but no "returns" on the money was negotiated - small percentage on a successful drug, stock ownership and so on.  On top of that unfairness, we read this gaming of the system...From a left of center perspective, not Mr. Trump's, the system sure looks "rigged" to me.

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