Posted on 04/17/2022 7:23:09 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
April 14, 2022: A majority of voters favor price controls on prescription drugs. A Scott Rasmussen national survey found that 43% of voters strongly favor price controls on prescription drugs, and 29% somewhat favor them. Ten percent (10%) somewhat oppose price controls on prescription drugs, and 6% strongly opp
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And most of the cost of developing drugs is now by the government in the form of grants, etc. to Universities and Private Labs.
Patents already expire in 20 years, copyrights are another matter that can be extended by Congress.
“Many of the new drugs do not work as well as cheaper ones.”
Which ones?
That is not really true.
A lot of the older off patent drugs work much better than the new drugs as the clinical trials and research were better and enforced by the FDA, no longer true, if so then those vaccines would never have been permitted on the market.
Anything you see advertised on TV
“Anything you see advertised on TV”
Is that your admission that your post is misleading and you have no idea what you say?
No, it’s called Sarcasm which you did not get.
“We also are one of the only first world nations that allow drugs to be advertised.”
Advertising creates more informed consumers. What is the problem?
“No, it’s called Sarcasm which you did not get.”
Is that your admission that your post is misleading and you have no idea what you say?
A bad idea: Price controls invariably lead to shortages.
I’d rather have lifesaving medicines available.
It also distorts demand. People show up looking for a script they saw on TV, and are getting them.
So when Fox news has the majority of it’s ad income supplied by drug companies, will they report anything negative?
Insulin for one.
“People show up looking for a script they saw on TV, and are getting them.”
Consumers getting medical relief is bad?
“Insulin for one.”
From what I see man-produced insulin ha improved drastically over the years.
Big Pharma became an addict of 200% profit margins long ago, to the point it believes it is entitled to them. At first their justifications were almost plausible, but kept getting worse, until they gave up and demanded ridiculous prices, “Because we say so!”
The govt is deep in bed with the vaccine companies to the tune of billions of dollars... kickbacks freely accepted and proxy stock 'buys'. Govt controls are the road to {our} destruction.
Yes I know which is why they try to copyright as much as the can. Some have tried to point out that Congress can apparently defeat the Constitutional requirement that copyrights have an expiration by simply extending it, which they argued was unconstitutional, the Court disagreed. Personally I think the court got it wrong.
Copy rights and patents are two different things copyrights can be renewed to a certain extent patents can’t
No doubt. And one would think that with a virus that was going to destroy the world the same government that pushed as hard as they could for everyone to get a shot, would have done something about the costs.
Nope.
Just money being made and recycled back to the politicians and bureaucrats that are part of the enterprise.
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