Perhaps you should read higher up in the thread. For example:
> Brazil is a poor country with lots of sick people who have no
>chance of finding anyone to pay first-world prices for drugs. The
>U.S. AIDS-afflicted population lives in the richest country in the
>world. There is a strong argument that charging first-world prices
>for AIDS drugs in Brazil does nothing other than make more people
>die faster...
>
Decommodifying life-saving drugs in poor countries is a very good idea. Squeezing down first-world drug prices is probably not.
Brad DeLong