Your going to have to read the linked story myself but I will say this if my life or my families lives depended on a drug that could only be purchased in another country you can better believe I do what it took to get the medicine they or I needed. The linked story is a good example of something that is screwed up with the legal system here. [www.kuro5hin.org]
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After reading the article, it seems like this is more of an issue for the FDA than a problem with patents. Now I will not argue that there isn’t a problem with the state of patents in the Unites States (and the world as well), but in this case, the guy is arguing this wrongly.
He needs to lobby the FDA to approve the drug he needs (or lobby for an overall of the FDA). The reason he cannot bring the drug into the country isn’t because of a patent, it’s due to the lack of FDA approval.
We have to allow at least some form of drug patents. Companies spend millions (billions?) on research to develop these drugs. Unless we are prepared to publically subsidize this research (more so than we already do), we have to allow these firms to recoup their costs and fund future developement.