<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">On Thu, Nov 5, 2026 at 6:18 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-2335066919828342170"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" lang="EN-US"><div class="m_-2335066919828342170WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> </span></p><div style="border-color:rgb(225,225,225) currentcolor currentcolor;border-style:solid none none;border-width:1pt medium medium;padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] Why is “cost of living” such a big problem?<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Nov 5, 2026, 5:41<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span>PM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p><blockquote style="border-color:currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(204,204,204);border-style:none none none solid;border-width:medium medium medium 1pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><p class="MsoNormal">>…Medicine does cost a lot more in the USA, for reasons we already established…<u></u><u></u></p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal">>…Sweden's IP laws are comparable to the USA's.  This is not the primary reason for higher drug prices in the USA…. Adrian<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Good then we should just use low priced medications developed in Sweden and not buy them from us.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> <span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"></span></span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">We are already buying a lot of designed in the US medications from China or the precursors.</span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">But within a few years we will be buying designed in China drugs because their Pharma is growing larger than the US.</span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I could say a lot about Indian drugs, but for it to make sense I would have to talk about stuff I don't often mention.</span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Keith<br></span> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-2335066919828342170"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" lang="EN-US"><div class="m_-2335066919828342170WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">spike<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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