Medicine is essential for society as well. Would you like to take it out of the hands of the mega corporations as well? Who exactly would be making the new drugs? And don't say the gov't. They gov't's track record of producing new drugs is negligible. Gov't funding contributing to new drugs? Yes, of course. But gov't funding playing a major role in putting a new drug in a patient? Minimal.
Notice how you yourself provide the solution to the fake dilemma you set up: Let them create the drugs, for public funds, but without patent protection for the resulting product, or with reduced protections.
The problem is not that there are mega corporations making GMO seeds or mega corporations creating new drugs. The problem is the extensive patent rights on the result.
