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| Yes | 72% | 28 votes | Total: 39 votes | |
| No | 28% | 11 votes |
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Pharmaceutical patents need not hinder the development of a vaccine against pandemic flu. There should be a public health law that is essentially equivalent to the right of emin...read more
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The needs of the public health should usurp profit motivation. Pharmaceutical companies are allowed to make money off of medical advances as a way of insuring their upfront fund...read more
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Abstract arguments made regarding intellectual property rights or the necessity of profit to commerce cannot be allowed to trump the lives of actual human beings in the event of...read more
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All's fair in love, war and the pursuit of drug-manufacturing corporate profit, many of you may say. And, in a theoretical sense at least, I don't disagree with you at all. ...read more
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Inasmuch as the profit motive in the medical field raises the hackles of those who believe it should be motivated purely by altruism - especially in times of emergency as would ...read more
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When considering whether pharmaceutical companies should be required to give up patents necessary to develop a vaccine against a pandemic flu, we should first consider where tho...read more
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No. The harnessing of the profit incentive, or what some may call greed, is arguably the greatest mechanism for improving the standard of living for mankind. It is the reason...read more
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