On Sun, 28 Sep 2003, Max B. Sawicky wrote:
SD are saying charge marginal cost (in effect, virtually nothing) to
poor countries. I didn't see that part in the FDA statement. If the EU
and Japan paid more for drugs so that developing countries could pay
much less, where's the bad?
Three
Thanks Michael!
This explains why Summers and DeLong made such a suggestion. I am so
lucky that I am from a poor country but it seems you rich country fellas
will continue to suffer a lot, especially with the worsening health care
crisis.
Damn!
Sabri
PS: Can you send me an e-mail so that I can
[This is really something out of the Onion. This is guy is saying that
the fact that US consumers are gouged by drug companies to a greater
extent than anyone else in the world is a measure of how virtuous our
system is -- and that he's sick and tired of other countries not pulling
their share,
This FDA idea is not out of the Onion but rather direct from two of the
most esteemed economists in the USA: Larry Summers and Brad DeLong.
DeLong and Summers, in a piece designed to protect drug patents and
intellectual property rights, advocate that ... rich country customers
could pay the fixed
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Subject: Re: Blessed are the gouged
This FDA idea is not out of the Onion but rather direct from two of the
most esteemed economists in the USA: Larry Summers and Brad DeLong.
DeLong and Summers, in a piece designed to protect
SD are saying charge marginal cost (in effect, virtually
nothing) to poor countries. I didn't see that part in the
FDA statement. If the EU and Japan paid more for drugs so
that developing countries could pay much less, where's the bad?
A side benefit is that this is a nice demonstration of the
I am getting confused here. In this scenario, since marginal costs are
next to nothing, poor country fellas are doing fine. Now, Summers and
DeLong suggest that the rich country fellas pay the fixed costs. But the
fixed costs are finite and can be paid down after the rich country
fellas make a
On Sun, 28 Sep 2003, Sabri Oncu wrote:
I am getting confused here. In this scenario, since marginal costs are
next to nothing, poor country fellas are doing fine. Now, Summers and
DeLong suggest that the rich country fellas pay the fixed costs. But the
fixed costs are finite and can be paid
