On: How I Got the $84k Hepatitis C Drug for $1500 by Buying It from India

[PieterH]

Surprised no-one has pointed to the real culprit here: the patent system, which allows individual companies to own knowledge like this and sell it at any rate it desires... private taxation by and for the rich, on the rest of society.

[linker3000 → PieterH]

> Surprised no-one has pointed to the real culprit here

Finance and the monetary system.

[cm127 → PieterH]

"Gotta have patents and profits, or there's no reason to fund it."

All testing, research, and funding has to be private for some reason.