yep yep - Republicans are the rational ones...

[darthtang aw]

Originally Posted by zman1
http:///forum/post/3164313
They couldn't make a bundle with a cure. The health care plans we all have only cover generic drug cost well. Drugs that have no generic equivalent practically pay nothing - co-pay is 90%. You must have been out of the true private sector for health care for some time now.
Any drug patented by the companies can not be reproduced in generic form for 3-5 years. This was a law created a while back to allow the drug companies that paid and did all the research to recoup their money and see a profit. Once they see a profit off their R&D they actually start producing a generic form themselves.
How much do you think they could make in 3 years......

 

[reefraff]

Originally Posted by zman1
http:///forum/post/3164313
They couldn't make a bundle with a cure. The health care plans we all have only cover generic drug cost well. Drugs that have no generic equivalent practically pay nothing - co-pay is 90%. You must have been out of the true private sector for health care for some time now.
What does what insurance coverage have to do with what the Pharmaceuticals profits? They get paid either way until their patent expires.
Oh, The wife's policy covers 80% or so of her drugs, higher if there is a generic alternative. Not bad. Her coverage is better than mine.

 

[vinnyraptor]

Originally Posted by reefraff
http:///forum/post/3164308
Again, if held the patent on a drug that could cure cancer you would make a bundle, far more than being one of how many companies having drugs to help treat the disease? A cure for cancer wont make it go away so they would have a reoccurring income from the product.
Contrary to what the Ossiah says there are very few docs that make decisions based on what will pay them the most.
that weak reef, i true cure for cancer would be a one shot thing and would eventually lead to a vaccine like the polio vaccine. it would cost the drug companies billions in the long run. we haven't cured any major illnesses in over 50 years and there is a reason why. there is no money in it!

 

[reefraff]

Originally Posted by VinnyRaptor
http:///forum/post/3164322
that weak reef, i true cure for cancer would be a one shot thing and would eventually lead to a vaccine like the polio vaccine. it would cost the drug companies billions in the long run. we haven't cured any major illnesses in over 50 years and there is a reason why. there is no money in it!
That is ridiculous. You honestly think there is some world wide conspiracy not to cure diseases? Now that's weak. It's kinda like the oil companies buying up the rights to the 80 MPG carburetor.

 

[vinnyraptor]

Originally Posted by VinnyRaptor
http:///forum/post/3164322
that weak reef, i true cure for cancer would be a one shot thing and would eventually lead to a vaccine like the polio vaccine. it would cost the drug companies billions in the long run. we haven't cured any major illnesses in over 50 years and there is a reason why. there is no money in it!

and to add one thing, profit and cost should not be part of any equation involving the health of the American people regardless of income, education, race, religion, or sexual orientation. when every major industry lost there butts in the economy, the insurance companies and Pharms made record profits. all the while cutting those who were deemed high risk, refusing to pay for procedures deemed needed by doctors, etc.

 

[zman1]

Originally Posted by reefraff
http:///forum/post/3164327
That is ridiculous. You honestly think there is some world wide conspiracy not to cure diseases? Now that's weak. It's kinda like the oil companies buying up the rights to the 80 MPG carburetor.
I would agree, if they have a cure they aren't holding out on it, but I belive the private funded research is more inerested in developing treaments not cures. I can't say for sure on what the research money is doing since the EVIL government funds most research - these perhasps are the one looking for CURES....
No, the oil company wouldn't hide the 80 MPG carburetor

However, I wouldn't put it past them to shelf a superior ION battery technology.

 

[reefraff]

Originally Posted by zman1
http:///forum/post/3164333
I would agree, if they have a cure they aren't holding out on it, but I belive the private funded research is more inerested in developing treaments not cures. I can't say for sure on what the research money is doing since the EVIL government funds most research - these perhasps are the one looking for CURES....
No, the oil company wouldn't hide the 80 MPG carburetor

However, I wouldn't put it past them to shelf a superior ION battery technology.

Don't forget the air engine and the photon accelerator

I love the way these threads evolve, what was the original subject of this one, Tastes great or Less filling

 

[zman1]

Originally Posted by reefraff
http:///forum/post/3164334
Don't forget the air engine and the photon accelerator

I love the way these threads evolve, what was the original subject of this one, Tastes great or Less filling
Stop taking the BAIT

 

[uneverno]

Originally Posted by stdreb27
http:///forum/post/3163963
I didn't take a ton of English in college. Plus I'm not implying that they can't write. I'm implying that nuking Journalism, new students would need some writing training...
Fair enough - I'm a linguist, you're an economist. It's all good.

 

[uneverno]

Originally Posted by reefraff
http:///forum/post/3163912
What country invents the vast majority of medical devices, Drugs and procedures?
I dunno, the Germans seem to be right up there: Siemens, Bayer, Bausch and Lomb, Ziehm Imaging, TecAG, Böringer/Ingelheim, Leica, etc.
The Brits invented the CT-scan, the Germans the X-ray, Max Knott and Ernst Ruska (Germans that invented the Electron Microscope), Watson and Crick (Anglo/american discoverors of DNA) and the MRI was a joint US/British effort.
We spend the most in total, but we also exceed the German and British populations by 3-4x per. Per capita, it could be arguable that the Germans spend more. I'm not entirely sure - I'd have to research that one - but I don't believe it's an invalid posit.