Tournament: Jack Howe | Round: 1 | Opponent: Marlborough AK | Judge: Leah Villanueva
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Costs for RandD are increasing, requiring increasing drug prices as well.
WTO 20 ~World Trade Organization, 2020, "Promoting Access to Medical Technologies and Innovation", World Trade Organization, https://www.wto.org/english/res_e/booksp_e/who-wipo-wto_2020_e.pdf~~/Triumph Debate
Costs of pharmaceutical RandD can be viewed in various ways. "Out
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invested in RandD (Tay-Teo et al., 2019).
Patents protect 80 of revenue for pharma - removing them combined with increasing R+D costs guts their financial solvency and ability to make drugs.
CRS 12 ~CRS, 10/28/2021, "Drug Patent Expirations: Potential Effects on Pharmaceutical Innovation", Congressional Research Service, https://www.everycrsreport.com/files/20121128_R42399_8beca70723872957efe4a267a5ae0df4805469ad.pdf~~ /Triumph Debate
A critical component of many of these federal efforts concerns patents.3 Patent ownership
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gap" created by the unprecedented number of patent expirations on blockbuster drugs.
Thus, higher drug prices are justified - removing them would collapse the pharma industry and complete destroy innovation
Mullainathan 17 ~Sendhil Mullainathan, University Professor of Computation and Behavioral Science at Chicago Booth, 6-30-2017, "High Drug Prices Are Bad. Cutting Them Could Be Worse. (Published 2017)," No Publication, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/30/upshot/high-drug-prices-are-bad-cutting-them-could-be-worse.html~~/Kankee
High drug prices are harmful. Medical costs and out-of-pocket expenses
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research, it would be much worse to have no funding at all.
1~ Strong IP protection spurs innovation by encouraging risk-taking and incentivizing knowledge sharing — prefer statistical analysis of multiple studies
Ezell and Cory 19 ~Stephen Ezell, vice president and global innovation policy @ ITIF, BS Georgetown School of Foreign Service. Nigel Cory, associate director covering trade policy @ ITIF, MA public policy @ Georgetown. "The Way Forward for Intellectual Property Internationally," Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, 4-25-2019, accessed 8-25-2021, https://itif.org/publications/2019/04/25/way-forward-intellectual-property-internationally~~ HWIC
IPRs Strengthen Innovation
Intellectual property rights power innovation. For instance, analyzing the
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for foreign direct investment which in turn also leads to economic growth."56
2~ Continuing Biopharmaceutical innovation is key to prevent future pandemics and bioterror
Marjanovic and Feijao 20 ~Sonja Marjanovic Ph.D., Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. Carolina Feijao, Ph.D. in biochemistry, University of Cambridge; M.Sc. in quantitative biology, Imperial College London; B.Sc. in biology, University of Lisbon. "How to Best Enable Pharma Innovation Beyond the COVID-19 Crisis," RAND Corporation, 05-2020, accessed 8-8-2021, https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PEA407-1.html~~ HWIC
As key actors in the healthcare innovation landscape, pharmaceutical and life sciences companies have
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health threats to an even greater extent under improved innovation conditions.
Millett and Snyder-Beattie '17. Millett, Ph.D., Senior Research Fellow, Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford; and Snyder-Beattie, M.S., Director of Research, Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford. 08-01-2017. "Existential Risk and Cost-Effective Biosecurity," Health Security, 15(4), PubMed
In the decades to come, advanced bioweapons could threaten human existence. Although the
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and Japan using plague to cause an epidemic in China during WWII.27