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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (4570)2/17/2008 11:27:21 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 42652
 
A lot of the basic research is done with funds from tax dollars.

The development of the compounds in to usable drugs and the testing of these compounds is done mostly with funds from pharmaceutical companies, and almost half the world wide revenue which pays for and provides incentives for this spending comes from the American consumer.