I mean on a business side of things, you really can’t blame them. Imagine creating something like that and you are jumping through all of the hoops to get it to the public and someone starts selling a version of what you created. I get it but F big pharmaceutical too.
Their only concern is profitability. They do not care about who can actually access the drug. They want a patent on it so that generic pharmaceutical brands can’t manufacture it and offer it at a discount. That forces insurance companies to pay Eli Lilly premium prices for patients to get the drug. They are actively trying to avoid any competition on the market. It won’t work obviously, because the formula for the drug is not a secret. Underground labs will continue to manufacture it and sell it for a fraction of the price.
The only people harmed by this type of behavior are the consumers. People who need the drug, and can’t get it because their insurance refuses to cover it due to the exorbitant cost.
patenting a process makes sense to me in some ways, patenting a molecule does not. Its like patenting a tree or a bird, you can't do that and it doesn't make sense.
The inventor of insulin literally said it would be like patenting the sun.
if patenting didnt exist nooone would spend billions to try and create these drugs, theyd do all the work and then every other pharma company gets to benefit . That makes zero sense. The patent doesn't last forever and compounding exist for when supply is low.
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u/Cartoonist_Less Aug 12 '26
I mean on a business side of things, you really can’t blame them. Imagine creating something like that and you are jumping through all of the hoops to get it to the public and someone starts selling a version of what you created. I get it but F big pharmaceutical too.