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11/14/2004 | ");document.write(' | ');document.write("David is correct. The high cost of reserach is a myth. The costs of marketing drugs by the drug companies is about 35% of their revenue, while R and D costs about 17%. Profit varies but it is quite high for most drug companies. This information is available on the web by using Google. The Wall Street Journal board is either misinformed, or being disingenuous when it talks about price being driven by R & D. The need for government incentives to do research is a good idea. The drug companies develop drugs that are treatments that one must take over and over like celebrex, viagra and zocor. Live saving drugs that are taken infrequently like vaccines and antibiotics needed against drug resistant bacteria are not being developed by the industry. ");document.write(' |
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');document.write(' | ');document.write("Tony");document.write("
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11/14/2004 | ");document.write(' | ');document.write("The ads for pills is overwhelmung to me and it must factor heavlily in the price for these assinine legal drugs for the moronic public.");document.write(' |
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');document.write(' | ');document.write("louise");document.write("
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11/13/2004 | ");document.write(' | ');document.write("I found your discussion tonight re high Rx drug costs naive and unusually superficial for this group. There is no question that the participants have health care provided by WSJ, have no major medical problems that require medication beyond the financial scope of their insurance company and/or their comfortable salaries, and have no suffering family members or friends in this situation. Such arrogant lack of compassion for your less fortunate fellow Americans is as remarkable as it is unattractive. ");document.write(' |
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');document.write(' | ');document.write("David");document.write("
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11/13/2004 | ");document.write(' | ');document.write("What none of the participants in the program mentioned is that a large part of the cost of the medications in the US is the unconscionable advertising that goes on regarding these medications. I expect my doctor to know whether the purple pill is good for me. I would never ask him. Advertising of prescription drugs should ne directed at doctors not at the public. Then we will see the cost drop dramatically. It is a myth to claim that the high cost is to cover R&D");document.write(' |
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');document.write(' | ');document.write("Dave Duncan");document.write("
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11/13/2004 | ");document.write(' | ');document.write("RX Drug Reimportation I found your program segment tonight on Drug Reimportation most interesting, being a senior. Many of my relatives and friends take a handful of pills 2 to 3 times a day. Although, I’m not exactly shore why they take so many pills, I suspect its because of the advertising and to help the economy. I don’t see any change in the ailment suffered, except the onset of a few new ailments brought on by side effects of some of the pills they are taking. What really tweaked my attention is some of the comments made by you and your guest’s concerning the pharmaceutical industry and the pharmaceutical prescription drug bill. Your perception of life wrapped in a dollar bill disturbs me a great deal more then your arrogant stupidity. Example, the comments by, one of many, Pfizer vice president’s, Dr. Peter Corr concerning profit for R & D. Advertising is the only research and development done in the pharmaceutical industry. The real research, now that they pay off the FDA, is selling the public a pill that could kill them without getting sued, hence tort reform, another R & D project. Dave Duncan 969 Tidewater Rd. Pasadena, MD 21122 ");document.write(' |
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