Drug goes from $50/vial to $28,000/vial. Best Healthcare in the world, Baby!

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65. This is one of the things that really upsets me and has kept me from plunging

headlong into getting my masters and Phd... You spend lot's of time working for a professor on some sort of research that the professor is involved in, sometimes you are a T.A. and literally teaching Bio 101 for the professor, then in your "off-time" you can work on the required classes plus your own research that will be decided upon, ultimately, by a panel at the University.. and you better have the answers to every abstract point in your research. If you have done really great, ground-breaking work, thinking, testing, hypothesizing, and its something market desirable, then the University "owns" it, if it's your "professor's study", then the professor owns a piece of the "proceeds". All the while, you are going mind-numbingly into debt. You will finish your degrees, and unless you know someone, are in a valuable "science" (like pharmaceuticals and not benthic ecology), or get a position with a College or University to teach, you will be an over educated fry cook still.

The idea that we need more people who do math and science jobs is whack!!! Everytime I hear a politician assert that we need more math, science, and tech people, I want to scream. There are so many who have trained, like myself, in science or math or tech, and are sitting on the sidelines or unemployment OR are working in professions that do not utilize their specialties. Its a ploy to get cheap labor into the US, a manner in which to denigrate our public schools and Union teachers, and keep pushing the b.s. down our collective throats. Also, if we value science, math, and tech, why in the world did we allow NASA to go away. NASA has actual use and intrigue, yet we let the egg heads go, the Space Coast area in FL has been financially devistated in losing paid, smart, government employees plus all the support staff that helped to run operations.. I know we still have some NASA functions, but allowing private companies to enter into the race to space and putting astronauts on foreign rides. Who would have ever imagined that NASA and the USA would be hitching rides into space aboard Russian space shuttles?

Anyway, the screwing of people out of their work and their mind's work is a disgusting aspect of continued education when one is specializing in science/ math degrees... plus they pay the Universities (well actually loan shark banks) to take their work. It doesn't seem like much of a bargain... Especially when the economy sucks so much.. and it seems that CEO's, banks, upper crust "who you know" types of people are the only one's that have money and literally are insulated from their thievery from and of the US.