pharmas will always be driven by profit. When af drug patent is filed it is usually during the 1st, 2nd or 3rd year of development. Making the drug "ready" for the market then takes another 10 years and cost billions and billions of dollars. The most common scenerio - at leats for the big companies is that the company has 5-7 years to earn back all the money used on development. This results is very high prices and licenses. (a patent usually last for 20 years)
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pharmas will always be driven by profit. When af drug patent is filed it is usually during the 1st, 2nd or 3rd year of development. Making the drug "ready" for the market then takes another 10 years and cost billions and billions of dollars. The most common scenerio - at leats for the big companies is that the company has 5-7 years to earn back all the money used on development. This results is very high prices and licenses. (a patent usually last for 20 years)