On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:00:51 -0400, the infamous "Ed Huntress"
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"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
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I'm aware of that. I'm just saying that it still seems extreme.
They'll sell hundreds of millions of those pills and recoup their
costs the first year. The next sixteen years are billions in gravy.
At our expense.

The typical recoup time is over 10 years. Some of the newer ones aren't
recouped at all under the patent; the pharma companies eventually make a
profit by enterring the generic business and competing with themselves. g
It's like movie producers selling DVDs while their films are still in the
theaters.

Interring?

Yabbut, those are to two different markets. I seldom go to theaters
any more, as I refuse to pay ten bucks for sitting the middle of
people with BO or nasty hair oil, too much perfume, or loud kids, and
cell phones, pagers, etc. I have a nice 100w/channel Technics
surround sound system (with Bose and ESS speakers) and can crank it as
loud as I like when playing one of the 12 DVDs I get from Netflix each
month for $12.99.


Canada gets the second pill. We have to buy the first one -- but we get to
spread the cost across all the pills we buy. If we bought the second one
there would be no one to buy the first one. Then there would be no pills
for
anyone.

I'm not saying I like the situation, but that's the way it is when you
don't
have price controls. All those other countries get to have price controls
only because we don't have any. Are you still with me?

Praps. What are you saying would happen if we were to impose price
controls?

No new drugs, and a lot of low-margin older ones would disappear from the
market altogether. Drugs for low-prevalence diseases would go out the
window.

That would be bad. I like $4 scripts of pennicillin for nuking sinus
infections when I forget to wear my filters when spreading compost.
It only took me twice to figure that one out. I thought the first time
it was from the JoGro (processed sludge and tree compost) which hadn't
been properly heated and the bugs burned out by the ammonia. Now I
know that it's any organic material that my schnozz doesn' like.
sigh


Do you still like unregulated markets? Are you still planning to vote
Libertarian? Where's strabo when we need him? d8-)

Hey, even the stoutest Libertarian knows there are limits to
deregulation.

Fat Libertarians are smarter than skinny ones? g

I thought "staunchest" and wrote "stoutest", so sue me.


As I said, I have an agreement with my body to die instead of getting
really, really sick. Then burn me and feed me to the fishes. I'll be
back. wink

I'd rather see you have a system whereby paying the individual rate for
insurance coverage didn't break the bank.

I'm pretty sure I would, too. But I'm not holding my breath.

I hope you have one hell of a bullet-proof living will, or they'll flop you
on a gurney some day and fix you up whether you like it or not. d8-)

I'm thinking of having "Do Not Resuscitate" tattooed to my wrist. I
need to update my Advanced Medical Directive soonest! I'm a year out
of date.

--
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous
delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
--e e cummings