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Now that's a guaranteed way to get drug companies lining up to spend $500 million on the development of new drugs.
Now, here's The Nation breathlessly describing the House socialists' new plan: the bill, Richard Eskow writes, "has the potential to start a new national conversation about the federal government’s relationship to intellectual property, monopoly power, and human needs." The gist is this: if an unelected government official decides there is sufficient need, the patent for a new drug can be voided.