CharlemagneAlthough pharmaceutical companies invest a great deal in research and development, they depend heavily on the basic research that is publicly funded. They push the ball across the goal, but they take credit for the many yards of effort by others that brought them there. Certainly they should be "rewarded", in order that further research and development can be sustained. But they should not be given free rein to pillage and plunder.

CharlemagneAlthough pharmaceutical companies invest a great deal in research and development, they depend heavily on the basic research that is publicly funded. They push the ball across the goal, but they take credit for the many yards of effort by others that brought them there. Certainly they should be "rewarded", in order that further research and development can be sustained. But they should not be given free rein to pillage and plunder.

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