[neutronsgalore]

“The R&D is already done for them.”

That’s true, which leaves no excuse for the major companies to continue the high prices after the R&D spent on a drug has been long paid off. Most of that profit doesn’t go back into R&D, it goes to the stockholders and CEOs. And they make sure to rig things their way to maximize how much they can line their pockets off of the sick and elderly.

[xjcsa]

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.