If the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation were to buy out and destroy the patent for Combivir, which of the following would NOT be one of the effects?
A) Drug companies would have no incentive to create new and better drugs.
B) The price of Combivir would fall.
C) The number of people treated with Combivir would rise.
D) No one would have a monopoly on Combivir.

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Destroying the patent for Combivir would not necessarily affect the incentives for drug companies to create new and better drugs. While companies may lose out on profits from Combivir specifically, there are still other diseases and medications that they can focus on developing.

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