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Originally Posted by Monkei
Law or not ... Someone tell me, inform how this ruling helps Joe Citizen the consumer? This is all about big business. Us consumers just sit back and accept.
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If you don't want it to be all about "big business", then you'd want
competition from smaller, lesser-known companies to be able to produce generics which cost the consumer a WHOLE lot less than the original/trade-name drug.
It certainly would not have benefited the consumer if a generic mfr. were put out of business because of a $21 million judgement against the smaller company competing with a giant one.....especially when the generic mfr. is (by law) making the exact same chemical product and labels it the same way the original mfr. does.
This, which blueash said it important to know and understand:
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The consumer has exactly the same protection whether you take a brand name or a generic. Keep in mind that because something bad happens does not mean a mistake was made. Every drug has benefit and risk which must be balanced. The risk however is never zero."