He said he would come up with something way better than Obamacare and he's following through. It's not one single massive government program like Obamacare. "Using our trade agreements to get other countries to pay more of their fair share” is just one part of it.

How about free market capitalism instead of monopoly. Then these products would flow from a competitive environment.

The base argument from the drug companies on the price of drugs follow the line of recovery of costs. But this is a fallacy, those costs have already been recovered in the form of tax write downs.

"Most taxpayers want to deduct as much as they can in a single year, so they elect to treat R&D costs as a current business expense. This enables you deduct the entire amount in the year the costs were incurred. You may take this deduction whether or not you make any money from your research efforts during the tax year. This deduction can be particularly beneficial for start-up businesses because it allows them to deduct R&D expenditures before their business actually begins and before the R&D efforts result in revenue." https://www.lawyers.com/legal-info/ta...

What really drives up the costs of drugs is the government backed monopoly. As a part of marketing, the pricing of a product is based on what the market will bear. If the price is too low, then money was left on the table. If the price is too high, then competitors will extract market share.

When government becomes involved, markets are always skewed toward the protected class. While I would lean toward no patents at all, the least equitable would be a limited window, like 12 months, to recover costs before capitalism takes over and the market is open to competition. We have all seen the results when patents expire and drug prices crash to reasonable based on competition.

So long as government instills this socialist concept of crony capitalism we will keep getting what we got and nothing will ever change.

In reality the other countries are paying their fair share. All they have done is refuse to patent unless the price is fair as it is government that is footing the bill anyway.

Personally, I could care less as drugs are for sick people or those wishing to be sick and I am neither. Drugs do not heal but mask. For those too far down as to need a crutch, then like a real crutch that support until we are healed then cast away. The body is an amazing machine that can repair most anything so long as we provide the nutrients needed for it to do so.