Letter: Drug makers earn Gibbons’ backing

Sunday, Feb. 27, 2000 | 9:41 a.m.

The drug companies are only able to do the research because of the prices they can receive in this country. If we allow their efforts to go unpaid by removing the product protection, we will end up not having new drugs to treat illnesses. Canadian companies will not create them. European companies will not create them.

All socialized medicine in this world is subsidized by the American consumer, who pays the price of drug research. When we do not protect these companies, the world will not have the new drugs needed to battle today's and tomorrow's diseases. Perhaps the rest of the world should enter the "free market of medicine" and relieve us of these terribly high drug prices and the burden of paying for a world of medical research. We must never have the government provide and control health care, or all is lost.

WILLIAM B. STEELE

archive