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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: skinowski who wrote (8189)	8/13/2009 12:48:23 AM
From: Archie Meeties	Read Replies (3) of 42652

FYI drug companies use about 2x as much revenue on advertising as they do on research. And the majority of the advertising in the US where there's competition to market and sell largely similar drugs. How many NSAID's have you seen marketed? ie viox, etc...you want to know how much statistical significance there is between those drugs? It's a joke... The vast majority of cutting edge research defining new receptors or intercellular mechanisms of drug activity come from...government sponsored research. The drug companies piggyback on the basic research, they suck at the teat as it were. Big pharma is very dependent on the world governments for basic research. In that sense, they owe the worlds citizens far, far more than the meager cuts in profts other countries limit them too.

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