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Kurt Ullman

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I'm not suggesting that it's something controlled or even engineered
by the drug companies; just that what they're doing (funding one drug
from an earlier one) will eventually cause all of us whether we suffer
from a "cheap" illness or an "expensive" one to pay the same for our
drugs. Isn't the idea of one premium (and this is just the drug part)
at the heart of the objection to the one-payer health care plan which
the right labeled as socialist?

Just so I understand, you are suggesting that someday soon, I will
be paying the same for my generic, OTC allergy medicine, as my kid pays
for her Humira? Or even, to bring things a little closer to a possible
reality, those with schizophrenia will be paying the same for generic
thorazine (probably the oldest antipsychotic around) as they do for
their Seroquel (one of the newest ones?) Heck they don't even the same
for generic Zyprexa and they do for the branded version and Zyprexa just
came off patent last month.
Socialism only happens when the governmental units make the
decisons on pricing and distribution.

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