Let's make sure that pharmecutical companies continue to screw the working class

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Playing dumb is the only defense you have left

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

They, the pharmaceutical companies wont let drugs from other countries make its way into our country?
WHY?
They are playing god and using the system to gain favor.

Look at the profits they have made of the past 20 yrs. then get back to us and tell us how they are so utterly ruined by waiting.

Drugmakers ring in 2016 with hefty price hikes

"Drugmakers including Pfizer (PFE) and Allergan (AGN) have boosted prices on many brand-name medications since last month. The price hikes, ranging from 1.3 percent to 42.3 percent, reflect the list prices, which don't represent the discounts and rebates negotiated by insurers and health care providers."
"Since Jan. 1, Pfizer has boosted the list prices of dozens of drugs, with the average increase set at 10.6 percent, according to a new report from Deutsche Bank. Even though it's common practice for drugmakers to lift prices at the start of each year, the pharmaceutical industry is increasingly under the spotlight for what some lawmakers and patients allege amounts to price gouging."
"
Pfizer Inc. reported second-quarter earnings that beat analysts’ estimates and raised its full-year profit forecast as sales of a new cancer drug climbed.
Adjusted earnings of 56 cents a share topped the average projection of 52 cents, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. First-quarter sales of $11.9 billion compared with analysts’ projection of $11.4 billion.
The drug Ibrance, approved in February by U.S. regulators for use in advanced breast cancer, generated $140 million in sales, compared with the $95.3 million projected by analysts. Ibrance will be a $3.39 billion drug by 2018, according to analysts’ estimates. Total oncology sales, including drugs such as Sutent, Inlyta and Xalkori, rose 25 percent from a year earlier."
Pfizer Profit Beats Estimates as Cancer Drug Sales Increase

Tell you what. You invest $500 million into a new drug and wait 10 years to see if it gets approved. If it does get approved you can then give them away for free.

People gambling with $500M for 10 years expect a payoff.

But like I said, it's a free country and you should get all your fellow leftists together and raise $500M so in the small chance the new drug gets approved in 10 years you can give it away.

They, the pharmaceutical companies wont let drugs from other countries make its way into our country?
WHY?

Any specifics?

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

I would never encroach on your territory.

 

[boilermaker55]

LOL, just like, what is war profiteering?
Leave it to a teabagger to not figure it out.

How utterly ridiculous can you be. There is no mention of profit being bad but price gouging with the health of others seems to be totally fine with you.
Which makes you as bad as the profiteers.

Profits are bad. The best new drugs come from unprofitable drug companies.
Look at all the great drugs developed in Cuba and Venezuela.
All drugs should be free.

Did I miss any? LOL!

There is no mention of profit being bad but price gouging

What is price gouging?

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

LOL, just like, what is war profiteering?
Leave it to a teabagger to not figure it out.

How utterly ridiculous can you be. There is no mention of profit being bad but price gouging with the health of others seems to be totally fine with you.
Which makes you as bad as the profiteers.

Profits are bad. The best new drugs come from unprofitable drug companies.
Look at all the great drugs developed in Cuba and Venezuela.
All drugs should be free.

Did I miss any? LOL!

There is no mention of profit being bad but price gouging

What is price gouging?

What do your sexual proclivities have to do with your ignorance of economics?

 

[boilermaker55]

You know damn well that is your proclivities. You are one of the tea baggers.

LOL, just like, what is war profiteering?
Leave it to a teabagger to not figure it out.

How utterly ridiculous can you be. There is no mention of profit being bad but price gouging with the health of others seems to be totally fine with you.
Which makes you as bad as the profiteers.

Profits are bad. The best new drugs come from unprofitable drug companies.
Look at all the great drugs developed in Cuba and Venezuela.
All drugs should be free.

Did I miss any? LOL!

There is no mention of profit being bad but price gouging

What is price gouging?

What do your sexual proclivities have to do with your ignorance of economics?

 

[Contumacious]

Drugmakers ring in 2016 with hefty price hikes

"Drugmakers including Pfizer (PFE) and Allergan (AGN) have boosted prices on many brand-name medications since last month. The price hikes, ranging from 1.3 percent to 42.3 percent, reflect the list prices, which don't represent the discounts and rebates negotiated by insurers and health care providers."
"Since Jan. 1, Pfizer has boosted the list prices of dozens of drugs, with the average increase set at 10.6 percent, according to a new report from Deutsche Bank. Even though it's common practice for drugmakers to lift prices at the start of each year, the pharmaceutical industry is increasingly under the spotlight for what some lawmakers and patients allege amounts to price gouging."
"
Pfizer Inc. reported second-quarter earnings that beat analysts’ estimates and raised its full-year profit forecast as sales of a new cancer drug climbed.
Adjusted earnings of 56 cents a share topped the average projection of 52 cents, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. First-quarter sales of $11.9 billion compared with analysts’ projection of $11.4 billion.
The drug Ibrance, approved in February by U.S. regulators for use in advanced breast cancer, generated $140 million in sales, compared with the $95.3 million projected by analysts. Ibrance will be a $3.39 billion drug by 2018, according to analysts’ estimates. Total oncology sales, including drugs such as Sutent, Inlyta and Xalkori, rose 25 percent from a year earlier."
Pfizer Profit Beats Estimates as Cancer Drug Sales Increase

Hummmmmmmmmm

Yo Vern


How much are we paying for the gargantuan welfare/warfare police state?


.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Both DT and HRC are committed to single payer national health care.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

LOL, just like, what is war profiteering?
Leave it to a teabagger to not figure it out.

How utterly ridiculous can you be. There is no mention of profit being bad but price gouging with the health of others seems to be totally fine with you.
Which makes you as bad as the profiteers.

Profits are bad. The best new drugs come from unprofitable drug companies.
Look at all the great drugs developed in Cuba and Venezuela.
All drugs should be free.

Did I miss any? LOL!

There is no mention of profit being bad but price gouging

What is price gouging?

What do your sexual proclivities have to do with your ignorance of economics?

You know damn well that is your proclivities. You are one of the tea baggers.

Sorry to burst your fantasy, I'm strictly hetero.

 

[JakeStarkey]

LOL, just like, what is war profiteering?
Leave it to a teabagger to not figure it out.

How utterly ridiculous can you be. There is no mention of profit being bad but price gouging with the health of others seems to be totally fine with you.
Which makes you as bad as the profiteers.

There is no mention of profit being bad but price gouging

What is price gouging?

What do your sexual proclivities have to do with your ignorance of economics?

You know damn well that is your proclivities. You are one of the tea baggers.

Sorry to burst your fantasy, I'm strictly hetero.

Yup, toddster is TP which makes him a bagger.

 

[Arianrhod]

Both DT and HRC are committed to single payer national health care.

So is Sanders.