please answer the following questions.
Do not answer simply yes or no. Please explain your answers.No reference/citation needed
1. Do pharmaceutical companies have a moral obligation to save lives?
2. Does the current patent regime for pharmaceuticals need to be reformed?
3. WTO “TRIPS plus” standards require developing nations to grant pharmaceutical patents lasting at least 20 years. Is 20 years a reasonable time for drug companies to regain their investments? If not, how long should patents last?
4. Do pharmaceutical companies have a right to set drug prices themselves? Why, or why not?
5. Should patents come with strings attached? If so, what can governments demand from patent holders?
6. Can governments ever be justified in stripping companies of their patents if they feel that the patents are being abused?
7. Expanding the production of cheap generics in the developing world would certainly help millions of poor HIV patients receive much needed treatment. But what about poor people in the developed world who lack access to life-saving medications? And what about those who can afford branded drugs, but only barely?
8. Because there are only so many ways in which a single disease or symptom can be effectively treated, drug patents often create monopolies, thus presenting consumers with only two options: buy this particular drug, or die. Can this be remedied, or can there never be a true free market for life-saving commodities?
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