[markfiveFF]

Along the same lines, if prescription drugs for Medicare patients becomes law, it will have the unintended consequence of lowering the amount of money private drug companies can put into research.

Correction: if prescription drugs for Medicare patients becomes law, it will have the intended consequence of lowering the amount of money private drug companies can put into research.

For freedom,
Locke

[concerned about politics]

Correction: if prescription drugs for Medicare patients becomes law, it will have the intended consequence of lowering the amount of money private drug companies can put into research.

Now there's another issue. Don't these anti-capitalist freaks realize that companies are the ones who pay people? That's where JOBS come from? If the companies fall, the paychecks fall, the taxes collected fall, the social programs can't be paid for, and who will foot the bill? God sending manna from heaven? Heck, he's about to throw fire and brimstone at these people! What the hell are they thinking? I mean...DUH!