Eliminating the patent system would substantially remove the incentive to suppress cures from advancing (because if anyone can produce treatment then no central source has the incentive to suppress a cure and society has very little incentive to suppress a cure being that the treatment is being sold at what it costs society and any new and better treatment could simply be copied by anyone who would otherwise want to suppress a cure). The fact is that patents harm innovation, if you have a government granted monopoly on something why should you innovate and why should not not suppress others from innovating? Look how much patents harm innovation in the pharma industry, even when congress tried to do a congressional audit to see how much R&D costs pharma refused. The fact is that if the government is gong to grant pharma a monopoly it should be an economically regulated monopoly whereby the government audits and regulates the company to ensure that the monopoly being granted is justified. If you want free market capitalism, fine, no patents. If you want government granted monopolies then they should be economically regulated and audited by the government and independent agencies to ensure that the monopolies are justified. But pharma wants it both ways, they want government sanctioned economically unregulated monopolies that last nearly forever.