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Logical

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16. Lobbying and advertising is part of every business. I am fine with 100% government run....

Reply to CFLDem (Reply #15)

Sun Jan 26, 2014, 07:36 PM

Jan 2014

pharma if someone can find a way to make it work.

If you found a pill tomorrow that would end diabetes you would have trouble getting it approved in 5 years and not spending a billion dollars.

Is that the Pharma companies fault or the FDA? I don't know.

Believe it or not, remove the profit from selling drugs and you will get very few new drugs.

There should be way more outrage on oil that you can easily get out of the ground.

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I say let the ones who can afford it have it... Faux pas Jan 2014 #1

I will eat more Kale they can have their designer drugs Heather MC Jan 2014 #6

Sounds like a good plan! Faux pas Jan 2014 #18

K & R !!! WillyT Jan 2014 #2

This sociopath is worth... L0oniX Jan 2014 #3

25 or so years ago, my wife died from leukemia--if i were to discover that some asshat dembotoz Jan 2014 #4

This country needs a law like that. RC Jan 2014 #5

Be sure to click on the link. PADemD Jan 2014 #7

It costs billions to get a drug to market. That money has to come from somewhere. n-t Logical Jan 2014 #8

Somehow I think medicines would still be developed without the big bucks. reformist2 Jan 2014 #10

How? And then why are there not more drugs on the market from non-pharma? n-t Logical Jan 2014 #11

Probably because everyone in medicine is hooked up to pharma. There are a lot of smart people who reformist2 Jan 2014 #12

I dont think you have any clue how a drug gets to market. Do some research on phase 1,2,3 studies... Logical Jan 2014 #13

Stop it Logical! CFLDem Jan 2014 #15

Lobbying and advertising is part of every business. I am fine with 100% government run.... Logical Jan 2014 #16

Time to require pharmas to follow the Hippocratic oath. reformist2 Jan 2014 #9

Greedy fucking assholes. Initech Jan 2014 #14

Bayer used to buy Jews from Auschwitz for 170RM apiece to test drugs on WhoIsNumberNone Jan 2014 #17

We embrace big pharma now anyway so.... Puzzledtraveller Jan 2014 #19