Patent of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Shen Yao

Seeing this topic, I thought of a movie I saw before, Desire for Survival. This film is very popular and has a large audience. On the one hand, the theme is novel, on the other hand, it conforms to people's psychology. I remember there is a lyric in the theme song: don't want the aura of God, as long as you are ordinary and impressive. Why? Because people nowadays are sick and can't afford medicine. Especially when you have a special disease, the medical expenses are like running water. Gleevec, a specific drug for the treatment of chronic myeloid leukemia, survives in a dying struggle and is very expensive. One of the reasons for its high cost is that the patent protection period is limited. Enterprises have invested heavily in research and development, but the patent protection period is only seven years after successful research and development. After the protection period, other manufacturers can copy it.

From the people's point of view, especially those who have patients at home, the helplessness and sadness of expensive specific drugs make people have to bow to reality. The pain and helplessness of having to spend a lot of money to buy medicine when one's relatives are sick makes people feel that life is really hard. Those people racked their brains to buy generic drugs abroad for their sick families, just to save their lives. Expensive medical expenses make people feel powerless to the extreme.

But for people who study drugs, there is also a reason for the sky-high cost. One is because of the patent fee mentioned above, and the other is that the investment in studying a drug is huge, which not only consumes time and energy, but also needs continuous clinical trials. If it fails, it is conceivable that the money invested is also. If it is a foreign specific drug, it will be more expensive. As an ordinary citizen, I still hope that drug prices will continue to decrease. It is too painful for more and more patients to take medicine to recover. Sometimes it is too painful to live because of money. I believe that the national policy on medicine will become more and more thoughtful. 700,000 specific drugs are really expensive, but there must be a reason. Because it is scarce, it is expensive.