[Itzlzha]

Bayer appears on the list for its overcharge of the government and public for the anti-anthrax drug Cipro...

And just which Naderite gets to determine what the APPROPRIATE charge for the drug is, when they are partly to blame for the COSTS of new drugs!

A Pahrmaceutical Company spends ~$800 MILLION over 8 to 10 YEARS to market/develop a new drug, most of which is mandated by the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT! Just how is the company, which is in business to MAKE A PROFIT, supposed to foot such an outlay, and recoup costs?

Socialist morons...if you don't like the cost...don't buy the drug! Oh, you need it...TOUGH! Pay up! No freebies for you, after you screwed up the entire Pharm industry!

[Red Jones]

of course it's true that the government forces the big drug companies to spend fantastic and unreasonable amounts of money developing drugs to get them approved. The FDA has had ridiculous standards for decades. The result is that drugs are way over-priced and not only that some drugs have been witheld from the American market for a significant period of time after the other leading nations have approved it resulting in the pre-mature deaths of thousands of Americans.

Republicans are now more powerful in Washington than the Democrats are. Yet Republicans don't do anything about this situation, nor about many other injustices brought down upon us. The high costs of health care are a huge burden to many Americans. If the Republicans really do have compassion for these people, then they'll want to do something about it, yet they do not. They merely pose and posture and claim compassion, always the type of Compassion that big-government liberals and Country Club Republicans espouse. But they don't behave in a compassionate way by wiping this crap away. The Republicans are nothing but a big con job.