Dec 09, 2016
The long list of complaints about the current system of medicine access and pharmacological research is well-known and well-documented, including in the Health and Human Rights Journal.
Those complaints start with patients facing significant—often deadly—pricing barriers, in low-income and high-income countries alike. The pharmaceutical companies that set those prices have been fiercely criticized for benefitting from publicly-funded research and then leveraging resulting patent monopolies to achieve profit margins that are the envy of other industries.