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The White House is threatening the patents of high-priced drugs developed with taxpayer dollars (apnews.com)
submitted 10 months ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[โ€“] cybervseas@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I think the first reaction to this was too hot. The government probably doesn't want to seize patents and this is really meant as a warning to get pharma to keep drug prices down more reasonable prices.

[โ€“] WHYAREWEALLCAPS@kbin.social 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

That is, generally, how the Federal government prefers to work. They'd rather extract compliance from than execute action against businesses.