Subj : Re: Um...no comment?
To   : Deuce
From : Mrproper
Date : Mon Sep 19 2005 03:40 am

  Re: Re: Um...no comment?
  By: Deuce to Frank Reid on Mon Sep 19 2005 01:06:00

 >   Re: Re: Um...no comment?
 >   By: Frank Reid to Frank on Sun Sep 18 2005 09:21:00
 > 
 >  > Pharmaceutical companies make profit, and they're going to continue to ma
 >  > profit by developing other means, if necessary.  If 50% of their net prof
 >  > results from U.S. drug sales, and half that market goes away because the 
 >  > starts buying foreign-market intended drugs, they will immediately increa
 >  > costs for foreign-market intended drugs.
 > 
 > Drugs are manufactured all over the place.  In Canada for example, there hav
 > been a number of cases where the government removed patent protection from
 > certain drugs specfically because the drug company in the US wouldn't/couldn
 > provide enough, or wouldn't provide it at a low enough cost.  Those cheaper 
 > name" drugs were then available at much lower prices simply because the
 > companies manufacturing them didn't have to pay for the R&D.
 > 
 > I would imagine cases like this are what really worries the phamaceutical
 > companies... how can they afford to develop new drugs if their profits are
 > stolen from them by well meaning goverment actions?
 > 
 > Granted, Canada does this very rarely, but it's political pressure that maes
 > happen, not market pressure.
 > 

Most of the big pharmceutical companys have the big money for R&D regardless of
whether sell their drugs at the outrageous prices they do anyway.. as I see it
most of them get subsides from our government to offer the drugs to the poorer
classes at a lower value anyway.. which some are actually doing now.. 


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