Renata notes:


"Charlie Self" wrote in message
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pharmaceutical companies didn't put the screws to consumers.


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. --snip--

Lewt' not attritubte to me that which is not mine. I said that drug companies
screwed the consumer. The rest of it was someone else's take.

They spend more on marketing than research of late.

Tell me why an "established', been-around-a while-medicine went from ~
$40 to $200 in about a year?

I'd love to know, too. Kind of like why I can get my VIoxx shipped in from NZ
for $132, while the same prescrip costs 3 times that here in the states, with
shipping.

Charlie Self

"Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit
soft."
Theodore Roosevelt