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Pajamas Media ^ | Jun 2, 2006

[A CA Guy]

You are exagerating.

[elkfersupper]

You are exagerating.

Nope, not exaggerating, just taking things to their logical conclusion.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

By the way the price raises you mentioned earlier could simply have come about to counter the outrageous run away court awards of the last couple of decades.

Just as I suspected, your empty-headed, knee-jerk response would be a non-sequitur.

What does paying Mallinckrodt 4 times more every year for their government-granted monopoly on narcotics have to do with court awards?

Don't bother answering. You just like to hear yourself talk. It's totally irrelevant to you whether what you say makes a lick of sense.

[A CA Guy]

You don't think the massive increase in lack of personal responsibility and large jury awards agaisnt tons of drug manufacturers doesn't make the average Joe get much higher prices as well?

How do you explain how those billions in awards don't cost us on the retail end?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

How do you explain how those billions in awards don't cost us on the retail end?

There you go again with your insipid non-sequiturs.

How do you say that Mallinckrodt deserves to multiply the price of their government-mandated monopoly by four each and every year because doctors get sued?

[A CA Guy]

There you go again with your insipid non-sequiturs.

Actually no, being insurance companies are settling lots of lawsuits, the prices probably were made higher to accommodate all the crazy lawsuits.

Isn't lawsuit reform one of the major areas that conservatives want to reform?
Well research is some of it. Getting paid back for the 95% of failed drugs is another part of it. Outrageous jury awards is another part of it and profit is some of it.

Are drug companies way out of line in their profits compared to google, oil, gold, Walmart and other business in the market?

[A CA Guy]

There you go again with your insipid non-sequiturs.

Actually no, being insurance companies are settling lots of lawsuits, the prices probably were made higher to accommodate all the crazy lawsuits.

Isn't lawsuit reform one of the major areas that conservatives want to reform?
Well research is some of it. Getting paid back for the 95% of failed drugs is another part of it. Outrageous jury awards is another part of it and profit is some of it.

Are drug companies way out of line in their profits compared to google, oil, gold, Walmart and other business in the market?

[mugs99]

Cocaine arrests went up 600%? Where? Since when? Cheaper, stronger drugs on the street? I don't believe all that.

I was a little off...Cocaine arrests actually went up 660 percent. All this is in Oklahoma since they took cold pills off the shelves, according to the Lawton-Constitution.

The cheaper stronger meth is now being supplied by the Mexican cartels who replaced those small operators the pill ban put out of business.

We'd be better off if we just opened drug camps and gave the stuff away for free to any idiot who wants to waste his life on it.
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[E. Pluribus Unum]

More non-sequitiurs.

You are in complete denial that the War on Some Drugs has added to health care costs.

Like I said, you just like to hear yourself talk.

[aruanan]

I find it unfortunate that the government can't come up with more effective ways to deal with the problem

Sure, legalize all drugs. Return the country to prior-1900. Let the social activists privately raise money to care for those who cannot or will not stop medicating themselves. As it is, they've moved to the "what I believe is so important, I must have the government do it and have everyone else pay for it". As a result, they've created both an illegal drug trade and a host of parasitic government and para-government agencies and organizations that are addicted to the money they've legislated to fund their brand of social activism. By doing so, they've saddled the United States with crime, criminal organizations, police corruption, abuse of the populace by the state in the name of safety, and the inconvenience of measures like the one this thread is about.

It's a perfect example of what happens when folks co-opt the power of the government to push their own vision of utopia.

[Roux]

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[A CA Guy]

If you mean I am not as obsessed with drugs as many libertarians and others are here, that is true.

I figure that if I am sick, my doctor can prescribe what I need.
If I think it is something I can tough out, I don't bother to worry about even the doctor.

I have a problem with meth labs blowing up in neighborhoods, meanwhile you worry more about sequitiurs, non-sequiturs and saying outrageous stuff about the WOD raising our health care cost.

I don't get my health care medication from the guys busted in any illegal drug operation, nor do most others.