Yeah--have heard this before. EEEEEvil pharmaceudicals. EEEEEvil hospitals. EEEEvil doctors. Vitamins, etc. Granny Goodwitch. Earth Mommies. Brother Moon. Take a vitamin or wholesome unstandardized herbs when the chest pains start? Well, that's your business. When the chest pains start, I'm hightailing it to the ER, and when a simple med saves me both from death and crippling--I'll kiss the feet of the pharm industry. You can have your vitamins....
Some of the commie stuff I read about pharma is nuts. Pharma is 15% of the healthcare dollar. The rest is hospitals, doctors, services, etc. The US gov't needs to get off it's ass and get on the backs of these socialist countries not paying their share of the drug bill. It amounts to an unfair subsidy to them and its being put on the backs of US citizens. Otherwise, the commies in the USA are going to try get the gov't into the pharma business. If people think things are bad now, just wait 'til that happens. We'll go from expensive drugs to no drugs at all. We'll have drugs for AIDS or drugs for hispanics or blacks or whichever political group the politicians want votes from. Or, the gov't can just put us all on drugs and we won't need to vote since we'll be too stoned to make decisions. The suggestion that gov't should take over developement of drugs is moronic.