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passiveporcupine

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4. I don't know how that shakes out,

Reply to Skeeter Barnes (Reply #2)

Fri May 13, 2016, 03:15 PM

May 2016

but I do know they get a lot of money from the government for R&D. so we are paying for their R&D through taxes, and we pay for their advertising through high drug prices. Ridiculously high drug prices. And our government is in on it...and our trade policies probably protect them so we can't do anything about it. That may even by why we weren't able to allow the Medicare to negotiate for drug prices.

What they are doing is obscene and not safe for the public.

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An actual drug company ad. (May cause severe infections, cancer, seizures, death, etc....) [View all] zebonaut May 2016 OP

Drug ads are making the pharmcos huge profits passiveporcupine May 2016 #1

I have heard that their R&D budgets are just a fraction of what they spend on advertising. Skeeter Barnes May 2016 #2

I don't know how that shakes out, passiveporcupine May 2016 #4

Big Pharma has lobbied to water down the FDA requirements for new drugs. dixiegrrrrl May 2016 #5

A little off topic, but, I was at tom_kelly May 2016 #6

Ask _Your Doctor to say "NO" to Big Pharma zebonaut May 2016 #3