India has a large population like us, but its overall economic strength is far behind ours, and its average national income level is far lower than ours. So even they are unable to afford the expensive medical expenses that put us under great pressure. If you are poor, you want to change, so they came up with a trick - directly denying the patent rights of many Western pharmaceutical giants - I am already poor, and you still use your patents to exploit me. After making money, you can invent more patents and continue. Come and exploit me, a vicious cycle with endless descendants. Therefore, whenever the Western world invents a new drug, Indians will imitate it in a very short time. Because there are not many early research and development costs, those patented drugs that seem high-end in the Western world suddenly become "shaobing" on the Indian production line. ”, benefiting the people at an extremely low price.
Just the cheap price is not enough. After all, we are not buying sesame cakes, so we are not kidding. How effective is the medicine? Will it be the same as our medicine, which makes people stay away from it? I checked a lot of forums and read countless posts. There are many people who say good things, but I feel that many people just spread the word of mouth. Some people say that after taking the medicine, all the monitoring indicators are good - but he or she will not... Could it be a sitter? Inadvertently, I noticed the confrontation experience between Western pharmaceutical companies and the Indian government.
This is really an interesting thing. At first, Western pharmaceutical companies believed that their interests were harmed and sued Indian pharmaceutical companies in India - there is no chance of beating a dog without looking at its owner. Then Western pharmaceutical companies complained to their masters, and the Western governments put pressure on the Indian government, but the Indian government refused to comply. If we continue to follow the usual "international practices", the consequences of disobedience of weak countries will range from economic sanctions, increasing tariffs on export goods of weak countries, anti-dumping, embargoes, etc.; to facing each other with force, aircraft carrier military exercises and information warfare in surrounding territorial waters. Even directly sending troops and so on. But none of this happened, even though the process went through many twists and turns. There are only three reasons. First, India, as a populous country, is an important market for "Western dogs". If there is a stalemate, both sides will lose, but if there is no stalemate, it will just make less money; second, for Western governments, India, as a pro-British representative, serves as a leader in Asia. It is of great strategic significance to curb the growing influence of our country, and we should not lose the big due to a stalemate over this. Third, Western governments themselves also have a heavy domestic medical financial burden, and they have always been very strict with their own pharmaceutical companies. Wei Ci, eager to effectively reduce medical costs and balance the fiscal deficit. Therefore, after an extremely complex and lengthy multilateral game, a result that seemed extremely funny but was actually extremely reasonable was finally produced. The West acquiesced in the existence of Indian generic drugs and also imported a considerable number of cheap drugs from India to meet its own domestic needs. Western pharmaceutical companies have been given a loud slap in the face by their own masters, no zuo no die. Haha