Mike in Mystic warbles:

Pharmaceutical companies do nothing of the sort, at least not in general and
in actuality not even very often. They spend billions of dollars a year
funding research to find medicines. They don't HAVE to do that, you know.

Sure they do. Where do they get their new drugs if they don't?

Just because John Doe from Somewhereville, USA happens to
have a need for a particular drug that the big bad pharma company makes and
can't afford it doesn't entitle him to get it for free.

Ah, but if he's able to drive to Canada he gets it for less than half price.

Why is that? Because our marvelous pharmaceutical companies think the U.S. is
the font of drug research blessings for the entire world, that's why.

In the end, any
price controls and other various forms of government intervention will
simply result in fewer drugs being developed, plain and simple.

Nonsense. Profits may drop if drug prices are stabilized throughout the world,
but the drug companies are NOT about to stop developing their only source of
income.

personally, the socialistic approach to health care that several
European nations and Canda utilize is horrid.

How?

That's the only good thing I can think of resulting from the aging of the
over bred generation.

WTF does that mean? Over-bred? Compared to the whining ninnies of younger
generations, or what? Or are they like German shepherds and we can expect hip
displacia at a young age and in many?


Charlie Self

"Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and
steady dedication of a lifetime. "
Adlai E. Stevenson