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Gilbert Gutknecht: “If a drug is developed mostly with taxpayer-funded research money through the NIH or other Federal grants, the taxpayers…”

On the recordJuly 10, 2002
If a drug is developed mostly with taxpayer-funded research money through the NIH or other Federal grants, the taxpayers should get some kind of royalty and that is a question that we have not resolved. Frankly, we may need some help from the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the people at NIH, the National Science Foundation, as well as some of the folks at the Patent Office. I am delighted to hear that we may have a hearing on this whole issue in the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and I hope we can bring some of those people in to explain to us as policymakers and to the people of the United States how it is that we can get shorted on both ends. In other words, we pay for the research and we pay exorbitantly high prices for the drugs relative to the rest of the world.
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Gilbert Gutknecht
Republican · Minnesota
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Discussing the issue of taxpayer funding for drug development and the need for royalties for taxpayers.

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