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To: neutronsgalore
Wow...you really are a socialist. Do you realize that drug companies are businesses and not some kind of public utility or government entity? Do you realize that the potential to make huge profits is the motive for doing research and development to come up with new drugs? And is there any more justifiable way to make money than by giving people what they need most?

In your world, Barry Bonds making millions per year for playing a game is just fine, but if you make millions per year and a bunch of lives are saved, you're some kind of villain. That doesn't sound like conservative thinking to me; it sounds like what I would hear at DU.

354 posted on 03/07/2008 6:04:36 PM PST by xjcsa (I hated McCain before hating McCain was cool.)
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To: xjcsa

“....but if you make millions per year and a bunch of lives are saved,...”

Not if the lives saved are bankrupted in the process by unnecessarily high prices. With those prices essentially fixed high through bribery and underhanded tactics directed at the generic drug companies. The law should be modified to consider any payment or other compensation to generic drug companies to prevent a generic form of drug from going to market to be a form of price-fixing.


355 posted on 03/08/2008 2:30:51 PM PST by neutronsgalore (Nature, getting rid of Muslims one tsunami at a time.)
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To: xjcsa

“In your world, Barry Bonds making millions per year for playing a game is just fine,..”

As long as taxpayers money is not used to subsidize it, in the form of taxpayer funded stadiums etc...

And nobody has ever died from lack of watching sports, or been bankrupted because they can’t watch sports.


356 posted on 03/08/2008 2:35:42 PM PST by neutronsgalore (Nature, getting rid of Muslims one tsunami at a time.)
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