Perhaps the People's Democratic Socialist Republic of Kalipornia finally came up with a good idea...
Big Pharma has been phukking-over the American consumer and preying on its sick for a century or more...
Chronically ill Americans - some of our most vulnerable fellow citizens - are entirely at the "mercy" of Big Pharma...
And Big Pharma in the US grotesquely overcharges its customers - compared to our neighbor Canada, for example...
Most Americans can certainly support the developer of a given drug making a substantial profit off their successful research...
However, that does not include a License to Rape the Consumer in Perpetuity... the very scenario that has inspired such State efforts...
There is nobody out there big enough to take on Big Pharma except the State itself, and Big Pharma needs to be taken down a peg or two...
The trick will be to slap-down Big Pharma enough to force them to stop price-gouging while avoid the killing of the Golden Research Goose...
Things have gotten so far out of hand, in favor of Big Pharma, and to the detriment of The People, that it's time to try something radical...
Even a broken clock is right twice a day, and, for once, the Socialist Klowns in Kalipornia may actually be on to something good and promising.
No guts... no glory... we'll never know 'til they've tried.