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Canuckistanian

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12. And drug companies spend only 13% on basic R&D

Reply to HeiressofBickworth (Reply #8)

Thu Feb 2, 2012, 12:39 AM

Feb 2012

51% goes to Marketing and Profits.

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Rick Santorum Tells Sick Kid Market Should Should Set Drug Prices /////Are they this stupid? [View all] WingDinger Feb 2012 OP

santorum is in the market for a brain Angry Dragon Feb 2012 #1

At least one election. WingDinger Feb 2012 #3

More than nine hundred bucks, that's for sure! nt MADem Feb 2012 #24

Who has been conditioned to think that we don't have to pay for health care? Proud Liberal Dem Feb 2012 #2

Maybe Obama should declare, the defense rests. WingDinger Feb 2012 #5

That's just so many kinds of stupid DefenseLawyer Feb 2012 #4

+1 Proud Liberal Dem Feb 2012 #6

Santorum's comment reminds me of Bush's "Ain't it great" response bulloney Feb 2012 #46

Yes, yes he is fucking heartless..how can he look himself in the face? Ecumenist Feb 2012 #7

Delusion is a nasty thing npk Feb 2012 #15

I get sick and tired HeiressofBickworth Feb 2012 #8

And drug companies spend only 13% on basic R&D Canuckistanian Feb 2012 #12

Additionally, much of that R&D expense is to produce copycat or "me too" drugs PA Democrat Feb 2012 #23

Drug company marketing Art_from_Ark Feb 2012 #52

I'm posting on this thread to ensure I'm counted amongst the sane riderinthestorm Feb 2012 #9

This may make me sound like a real bastard atreides1 Feb 2012 #10

Actually, the reason his child is sick is because of a genetic disorder. MADem Feb 2012 #27

You can feel sympathy for the child nxylas Feb 2012 #41

+1!!! uponit7771 Feb 2012 #49

I have Crohn's disease. Lucky me. I have to take chemical therapy every 6 weeks for the rest of my demtenjeep Feb 2012 #11

No one would ever buy an iPad if they had to spend $900 on it every single month! tblue37 Feb 2012 #13

money from where? 3auld6phart Feb 2012 #14

This heartless candidate should just go home. midnight Feb 2012 #16

"People have no problem paying $900 for an iPad," lunasun Feb 2012 #17

Santorum Is About As Out Of Touch As Romney DallasNE Feb 2012 #18

Oh, come on, we wouldn't even HAVE those drugs he can't afford if they weren't expensive! jberryhill Feb 2012 #19

That Santorum is sure a spellbinding speaker ... 66 dmhlt Feb 2012 #20

Oh. My. God. That is the funniest picture I have ever seen! MADem Feb 2012 #29

and the rest are praying for God to take him NOW! lastlib Feb 2012 #40

Riveting! DefenseLawyer Feb 2012 #35

Priceless Picture otohara Feb 2012 #37

LOFL!! Look at the kids sleeping....OMG, they weren't planning this, he's just terrible uponit7771 Feb 2012 #50

WWJD - As Jesus would say, "hey that healin' ain't free!" ScottLand Feb 2012 #21

I'd say there's a lot of just plain, old-fashioned, arrogance involved. hobbit709 Feb 2012 #22

Who pays $900 for an iPad? baldguy Feb 2012 #25

And who buys a new $900 iPad every month? octothorpe Feb 2012 #33

And no one buys one a week. Mz Pip Feb 2012 #55

So...he's in favor of a mandate then. Or letting the rest of premium payers pick this up. ehrnst Feb 2012 #26

You would think that having a sick kid of his own would have taught him something. surrealAmerican Feb 2012 #28

Has nothing to do with learning from his own experience! atreides1 Feb 2012 #32

It's not so much "This Stupid", but rather "This Heartless". HughBeaumont Feb 2012 #30

Those ARE gaffes though a2liberal Feb 2012 #31

So out of touch and heartless............ Smilo Feb 2012 #34

Suffers from a Disease Peculiar to Wealthy Political Wanna Be's dynasaw Feb 2012 #36

Probably already been mentioned... usrname Feb 2012 #38

Little change to D for ya jmowreader Feb 2012 #53

I wonder how santorum tastes on a pious-baloney gingrich? lastlib Feb 2012 #39

Did he also say that an iPad is not a napkin or a paper towel? JBoy Feb 2012 #42

IPads last years Politicalboi Feb 2012 #43

Santarum and all the rest of these fucking so called gopiscrap Feb 2012 #44

His real god is the market. WingDinger Feb 2012 #45

This is exactly why his name works more accurately as Sanitorium (an insane asylum) Dont call me Shirley Feb 2012 #47

The biggest problem with Man on Child Santorum's answer is that it suggests no solution to Marnie Feb 2012 #48

This idiot was one of my Senators Pakid Feb 2012 #51

Message for Rick Santorum from Pope John Paul II ... Bozita Feb 2012 #54

I envision a GOP meeting to go like this: HeiressofBickworth Feb 2012 #56

Yes. They are that stupid. Zoeisright Feb 2012 #57