Edwards Fix For Patents Is A Dud: Poll
Make a commentBy Ed Silverman // June 16th, 2007 // 6:06 pm
A couple of days ago, the presidential aspirant proposed a plan to heal the health care system. One idea is to offer cash payments in place of long-term patents for companies that develop certain breakthrough drugs.
Edwards believes that offering cash incentives instead would allow multiple companies to produce generic and other versions of those drugs to drive down prices. His campaign officials quickly fine-tuned that message by stressing that the payments could be voluntary for drugmakers and would be aimed at spurring the development of drugs that cure diseases.
So we asked you whether the idea is any good. The results?
No - 29 votes, or 74 percent;
Yes - 10 votes, or 26 percent
John, are you listening?