[Moonman62]

Sorry about the confusion on the population issue. I think drug companies play the third party payer system to the hilt. Some new drugs offer so little improvement over older drugs that I doubt people would buy them if they had to pay out of their own pockets.

And I'm all for government funded research, because it's one of the few things the government does that actually pays off, but I doubt the drug companies would like it very much if a new discovery clobbered the market for one their drugs.

[liberallarry]

The drug companies. Sigh... I know too little about them to comment.