Bad Bob Loc: Virginia

Wolf counselor Loc: Heart of Texas

They should be strung up for that........................ Blob !

Forget about that though.

Look at Trump's renegade ho'.

She's hot ain't she ?

Bad Bob Loc: Virginia

Paid $130,000 for spanking your lying clown.

Wolf counselor Loc: Heart of Texas

That's how billionaires roll Blob.

$130,000 is chump change for a player like Trump.............¶{}[\]{!!

woodguru

Your attention span isn't any better than Trump's, Lol

Wolf counselor Loc: Heart of Texas

Time is precious so I haven't much of it to spend with Bozos and dimwitted peckerwoods.

woodguru

This is why drug companies get away with ripping the government for billions of dollars, nobody on the right has the ability to engage in a conversation about it with a functioning brain.

Drug companies needed serious regulation and price controls a long time ago, and now it's time to get extreme with the industry.

There is no reason for a drug that costs Canadians or Europeans $40 to cost hundreds and thousands of times more here. We are not holding the drug industry to fair competitive standards. These companies are buying foreign companies that make the same or better drugs and sitting on them.

buffalo Loc: Texas

The first paragraph of the article says it all:

"Did you catch 60 Minutes last night? If you did, you may have learned about a drug called Acthar that went from $40 in 2001 to over $40,000 today. It’s a perfect illustration of just how poorly regulated the US pharmaceutical industry continues to be and how there’s absolutely no good reason for the extreme prices Americans pay for medicine."

Poorly regulated? The US pharmaceutical industry is regulated EXACTLY like big pharmaceuticals dictate to Congress. To intentionally keep out competition and enable them to maximize profits in the multi-BILLIONS. The same way Congress "regulates" all big corporations. Not for the benefit of the general citizenry but for the benefit of CEOs and stockholders.

Wolf counselor Loc: Heart of Texas

You can't solve the problem so either shut up or go ask your mammy to run again in 2020.

While you're at it, get her some medicine for that swollen gut of hers.

buffalo Loc: Texas

Conservatards can't respond intelligently to a harsh t***h about their precious corporations screwing folks, not only with Congress' blessings but their help, so they divert the topic with childish crap about s**t that doesn't matter.

woodguru

What do you mean by that "you can't solve the problem"? It sure as hell can be solved, start regulating prices and make drug companies sell to the government at fair and sensible market prices. Stop letting drug company lobbyists write the regulations. The cost of healthcare would be cut in half if this industry were properly regulated.

Kevyn

Then stay far away Trump events.

Wolf counselor Loc: Heart of Texas

No Goober.

I said YOU can't solve the problem.

This pig can't solve it either.

woodguru

Of course you do understand who could solve the problem if they didn't let drug companies write their legislation don't you?

There's a few rules that need to go...
...drug companies don't get to set prices that the government can't even negotiate on volume prices
...the government shouldn't have to pay substantially more than a drug is sold to any distributor in the world for
...the government should be free to source drugs from other countries when it saves hundreds of percent
...drugs rights purchased from another company need price controls for the new one (example epipen)
...drugs developed with subsidies by the government need hard price regulation based on cost to manufacture guidelines
...manufacturers need to be prohibited from paying doctors bonuses for prescribing drugs
...pricing by perceived value needs to stop, cancer drugs are way too high

I've heard an argument from the right that US drug companies come out with the newest and best drugs, not true. Countries like Cuba have thriving drug industries that have drugs that we don't, and they do not break the bank when they have a new drug that works for obscure problems.

It costs $8000 for a new knee in India, and that includes three weeks of resort caliber rehab.

PeterS

I thought you were a conservative? Why should pharmaceuticals be regulated at all? So long as insurance companies pay the price drug companies are free to raise prices as high as they can. Their job is to provide a maximum profit for their stockholders not provide cheap medication for their customers.