Full disclosure: I’m a chemist. I’m a foreigner from a county with socialized medicine.
I say it is completely impossible because once one pharma company creates a drug, anyone can see what it is and replicate.
How can this be enforced? Impose tariffs in 100+ countries because of this?
There are dozens of local pharmaceutical companies in each country that have the capability to replicate whatever break through one big pharma company makes.
Nothing is impossible! Your solution: Impose tariffs in 100+ countries because of this? is one of many. Or we can just BAN all drug imports that do not have safety standards and random inspections of quality and quantities of contained drugs.
The article addresses 2 solutions:
Let me tell the problem with the first point:
Full disclosure: I’m a chemist. I’m a foreigner from a county with socialized medicine.
I say it is completely impossible because once one pharma company creates a drug, anyone can see what it is and replicate. How can this be enforced? Impose tariffs in 100+ countries because of this? There are dozens of local pharmaceutical companies in each country that have the capability to replicate whatever break through one big pharma company makes.
Nothing is impossible! Your solution: Impose tariffs in 100+ countries because of this? is one of many. Or we can just BAN all drug imports that do not have safety standards and random inspections of quality and quantities of contained drugs.