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Originally Posted by RL Gumm
I believe nobody should be in business to make a profit over someone else's illness. Too many drug firms are taking huge subsidies from the U.S. government (your taxes) to help defray the costs of developing treatments and cures for ailments, then they are gouging the very public that supported their research through exhorbitantly high prices to U.S. citizens that they do not charge citizens of other countries who contributed nothing to the cost of research and development.
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They do not charge higher prices in other countries becasue those governments fix prices and in effect the US consumer is subsidizing development costs and the rest of the world benefits. In addition, a drug company has about 20 years of selling a drug to recoup all its costs before a drug can go to generic.
What is a real problem with drugs is the advertiusing which has increased demand and created pressure on doctors to prescribe warranted or not and that has to stop.