[goat granny]

US citizens should not be paying 10dollars a pill for anything. Many medications are duplicate of medications already on the market. Just change one ingredient and you have a new medication. Importing meds also make generics at wal-mart 10 dollars for a 3 month supply. I don't have prescription coverage, I will pay cash for my meds, not have my grandchildren buy them...I knew a lady that paid 1500 dollars a month for cancer medication. that is a crime. R & D be damned

[Mase]

Rith on, granny. Give us lthose seilver bullets that take more than a decade to commercialize, at a cost of almost a billion dollars, and do it for no profit, or at a loss, because drugs are for people not for profit. It's there duty to the state, dammit!

Or, do you just expect someone else to pay for your needs? If so, you're really going to like this guy Obama.

Forget future innovations and the generations who will benefit from them. Give me mine now, at whatever I determine is an affordable cost, and screw everyone else. Nice.

[Myrddin]

My son is on Coumadin to keep his blood thin enough to work with the two artificial heart valves (mitral & aortic). He can't take generic warfarin. It screws up his PT and we end up sticking him with heparin injections for days to get his blood thin enough. It's more expensive, but it's the only thing that works right. Absent that choice, he would be room temperature.

R&D be damned? Fine. You'll sing a different tune when the doctor tells you there is not treatment for some particular problem in the future. The difference is you won't sing for very much longer. BTW, absent R&D, you wouldn't be using a computer to engage in this conversation. It is the product of R&D that has been refined to a level you can afford by mass production.