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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: i-node who wrote (778088)4/2/2014 7:27:32 PM
From: koan  Read Replies (2) of 1573908
 
<<Why is it that you see Big Pharma as "price controlling" when they set the prices for a drug but you don't see government as price controlling when they do precisely the same thing?>>

What you don't get is that government is a manifestation of democracy i.e. our collective decisions. So a society has a right to negotiate drug prices, or set them if it wants. The VA negotiates drug prices.

And why make it illegal to get the same drugs from Canada if a person can get them cheaper there.. Big pharma wanted that provision so they could charge everyone more. That is where paid lobbyists come in handy.

A corporation is a "sociopathic" artificial business that does not have a right to set prices unless society gives it that right.
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