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Your problem aren't patents. Pharmaceutical patents exist all over the world, including in countries with mandatory general public healthcare (i.e. pretty much all of the developed world except the US). The problem is the lack of oversight on prescribed medicine and medical services. Patents are a government mandated monopoly. That's fine, as long as government also mandates and/or negotiates prices as a condition bound to the patent. It seems so obvious, I kind of feel bad to spell out such a trivial interrelationship.



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