Quote:If you set controls on the price, then the incentive to create more life-saving drugs is reduced. So your compassion* in forcing someone to give away his property at less than he values it may save lives now but result in others who could have been saved dying.


 

* Using force to give away someone else's property is not compassion.


 

BTW, please correct me if I'm wrong, but the date on the original manufacture implies that the patent on the drug in question should have expired by now. If so, any manufacturer could make it and sell it at cost. If the patent was extended by the government, then that implicates a corrupt government, which argues against giving our rulers more control over the medical system.