You do understand that the profits go partly back into making new drugs? And also partly into paying people with families?<p>Again: I understand the need for keeping medicines cheap but the removal of patents seems like an overkill with adverse effects.<p>&gt; If they have no patent, they are forced to keep the price low enough so no one wants to compete.
... And no one feels like inventing a new drug that will immediately be copied and sold at a price near that of the raw materials (the only overhead is the factory) making it impossible to pay all the scientists who are working on the next drug.