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Obamarama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 06:40 PM Original message |
If you're upset over the high price of prescription drugs, consider this: |
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Radio_Lady (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 06:45 PM Response to Original message |
1. Bravo for bringing this important subject up, KzooDem. I salute you -- and others like you |
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Radio_Lady (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 06:59 PM Response to Reply #1 |
16. Imagine the free food that the pharmaceutical lobbyists pay for with Washington politicians? |
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acmavm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 06:45 PM Response to Original message |
2. Yeah, the Hypocratic Oath has morphed into the Hypocritic Oath. |
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Mythsaje (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 06:46 PM Response to Original message |
3. That's without even considering the cost of television advertising |
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Solon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 06:46 PM Response to Original message |
4. Add in the TV and print ads, and you can easily get up to the hundreds of billions of dollars. |
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Radio_Lady (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 06:49 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. Well, RLS (restless leg syndrome) is a known illness -- my husband suffers from it. |
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Solon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 06:55 PM Response to Reply #7 |
11. I know its a real syndrome, but most of the ones mentioned on TV... |
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Radio_Lady (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 07:13 PM Response to Reply #11 |
23. Yes, I used to work for a large pharmaceutical company -- I know the |
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SharonRB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 06:47 PM Response to Original message |
5. Good for you for sticking to your principles! |
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Obamarama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 06:57 PM Response to Reply #5 |
14. The other kicker is a lot of the food gets wasted.... |
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BlackVelvet04 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 06:48 PM Response to Original message |
6. from what I understand, the local Carillion's get lunch |
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robinlynne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 06:50 PM Response to Original message |
8. excellent. small things add up to big things. |
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HCE SuiGeneris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 06:51 PM Response to Original message |
9. Marketing costs... |
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Sanctified (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 06:53 PM Response to Original message |
10. I work for a Software Company who specializes in the Medical Field... |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 06:55 PM Response to Original message |
12. They'd be lowered 10 times as far if we stopped the ethically |
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dogday (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 06:56 PM Response to Original message |
13. I changed from Walgreens to Costco and I am |
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Radio_Lady (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 07:15 PM Response to Reply #13 |
24. Sounds like a good move! We're encrusted in the Kaiser Permanente system... |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 07:41 PM Response to Reply #24 |
31. We have Kaiser too and we pay $5 a scrip. |
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Radio_Lady (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 08:24 PM Response to Reply #31 |
35. Yes, we do pay more. We're part of Senior Advantage which is the policy they write for those of us |
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TommyO (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 06:58 PM Response to Original message |
15. My doctor's office is probably one of those rare ones |
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Obamarama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 07:01 PM Response to Reply #15 |
18. Bravo to them! |
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TommyO (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 08:51 PM Response to Reply #18 |
37. The office does take the literature and samples and |
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nutshell2002 (170 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 07:00 PM Response to Original message |
17. No Free Lunch |
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Obamarama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 07:05 PM Response to Reply #17 |
21. You get free lunches in ER??? |
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knitter4democracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 07:03 PM Response to Original message |
19. Amen to all of that. |
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Oeditpus Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 07:04 PM Response to Original message |
20. Not to mention scads of samples of the meds they're pushing |
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Obamarama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 07:08 PM Response to Reply #20 |
22. At least in our office we generally reserve free samples for low-income patients... |
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Radio_Lady (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 07:16 PM Response to Reply #22 |
25. I was told in the Kaiser Permanente Nurse Treatment Room that they don't give out ANY FREE SAMPLES. |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 07:18 PM Response to Original message |
26. I'm in no way defending the drug reps' lunches, but they also give away drug samples |
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Obamarama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 07:21 PM Response to Reply #26 |
28. I have no beef with the free samples (see my post above) |
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az chela (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 07:22 PM Response to Reply #26 |
29. Free samples |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 07:39 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. Not in my Mom's case |
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Radio_Lady (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 08:30 PM Response to Reply #30 |
36. Those doctors are gone but not forgotten. One of my doctors gave me free samples |
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az chela (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 07:20 PM Response to Original message |
27. I used to work for DR |
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madrchsod (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 07:49 PM Response to Original message |
32. cost a lot of money to hire barbie and ken.. |
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madrchsod (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 07:52 PM Response to Original message |
33. i forgot their pens are the best... |
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supernova (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 07:54 PM Response to Original message |
34. Wednesday was Drug Rep Day at the Cancer Center |
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Gelliebeans (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 09:20 PM Response to Reply #34 |
38. It must be hard |
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Gelliebeans (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 09:22 PM Response to Original message |
39. I wanted to thank you |
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Telly Savalas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 09:43 PM Response to Original message |
40. If the lunches were abolished, they wouldn't pass the savings along to the consumer. |
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blondie58 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-24-07 05:57 AM Response to Reply #40 |
41. good point, Telly Savalas |
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many a good man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-24-07 11:41 AM Response to Original message |
42. Those drug reps earn over $300K per year |
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