• albigu@lemmygrad.ml
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    11 months ago

    Not sure how exactly that works in the USA, but one of the PT’s government greatest achievement in Brazil was both providing legislation for selling off-patent drugs (called “generics”) and also making those tax free to encourage competition.

    Lots of really important drugs (for example gut worms) became much more affordable in the span of some 5 years.