The drug cartels will win big and might finally get to totally bankrupt our health care system.
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This is what I am talking about. Seems to me that there is only one taxpayer.
In an important concession, Canada is extending patent protection on pharmaceuticals for two years, which is estimated to drive up the cost of prescription drugs to consumers and governments by up $3 billion annually. Ottawa says it’s willing to compensate the provinces for any additional costs.
So your theory is that people in the pharmaceutical industry, who generally get 17-20 year patents (_if_ they get them, it's not easy inventing things) are making out like bandits by getting two extra years of protection? This is obviously wrong.