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Old 06-10-2008, 12:08 PM   #25
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Sorry, but I don't believe that anyone has a "right" to such things. If you want drugs, the company which develops them has a right to charge a fair market price for them - one which will recoup their development costs, and give them a reasonable profit margin too.
Does greed set fair market price? Sorry, I am not going to spill any tears over the "plight" of the drug companies. There is so much scamming going on in the medical industry that it should truly make people sick. Take the US genome project- how many "researchers" delayed providing results so that they could PATENT their findings? How does one patent a work of nature anyways?

And, for the past several years, the CEO of the company that handles my medical insurance has "earned" in excess of $400 million per year...."Fair market value"? Profit margin? No- they bloody well rip us off.
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