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To: GIdget2004

I thought Trump was just referring to Medicare/Medicaid negotiating prices for the drugs they use?

And if the GOPe is defending what happened with things like the Epi-pen, then shame on them for it.


2 posted on 01/13/2017 6:23:37 AM PST by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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To: headstamp 2

Epi-pen? Follow the money. That is all it takes to follow the GOPe. They are money whores.

Ryan comes out today saying that mass deportation of illegals is impractical. FEET of MUD. Clay is too firm a description. Pugsley Ryan blows with any old wind.

As the preacher said one day, Any old dead fish can float downstream.


7 posted on 01/13/2017 6:28:24 AM PST by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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To: headstamp 2

Negotiating price is the very foundation of a free market.


11 posted on 01/13/2017 6:34:51 AM PST by hoosierham (Freedom isn't free)
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To: headstamp 2

I met the manager of a major pharma investment fund. He mentioned this inability of the government to bid on drug prices and said it is leading to price gouging. I’m sure Trump heard the same thing.


15 posted on 01/13/2017 6:41:58 AM PST by Williams (Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
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To: headstamp 2

I think the issue is more complicated than that.

The costs involved in developing some drugs .. is hampered by the years and hours and processes used to produce a useable product. Sadly, it is the way drugs are developed. Staffing labs with equipment and skilled people to do the research takes considerable amounts of funds.

That being said; it appears to me that most of these companies, want an instant return on their investment. Which I’m not sure is reasonable.

I have known of the epi-pen for years; why all of a sudden it became so outrageously expensive doesn’t seem to have a logical answer.


16 posted on 01/13/2017 6:47:08 AM PST by CyberAnt (Peace through Strength)
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To: headstamp 2

He was.


21 posted on 01/13/2017 6:55:30 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: headstamp 2
And if the GOPe is defending what happened with things like the Epi-pen, then shame on them for it

Right!

If anyone knows what the correct price should be, it is our new government and president. Let them decide!

Same goes for deciding the optimum global temperature!

31 posted on 01/13/2017 7:20:16 AM PST by Mr.Unique (The government, by its very nature, cannot give except what it first takes.)
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