When is the bailout for the drug/insurance companies coming?

Shardik

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Sun Jan-04-09 12:43 AM
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When is the bailout for the drug/insurance companies coming?

Really? Why not?

Oops. I forgot. They have managed to insert themselves so indelibly into the American economy that they will not suffer until the last American spends their last penny.

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Mind_your_head

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Sun Jan-04-09 12:49 AM
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1. Never! Unless they provide the cure for cancer. n/t

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KT2000

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Sun Jan-04-09 12:55 AM
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2. Next time you open the bill

they believe in direct pick pocketing

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Fireweed247

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Sun Jan-04-09 01:04 AM
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3. I think the oil companies are next

The price of oil is dropping, they might not make the record breaking profits they are accustomed to.

And I also think that blackwater might need a bailout, they will need the money for their war crimes trials.

Halliburton and KBR definately need a bailout, and possible Monsanto. Did I miss anyone?

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Occam Bandage

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Sun Jan-04-09 01:07 AM
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4. Profit is evil. nt

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DCKit

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Sun Jan-04-09 01:29 AM
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5. Not when it's an honest profit nor excessive.

But the "Free Trade" and "offshoring" bullshit have got to stop.

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Abq_Sarah

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Sun Jan-04-09 02:44 AM
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8. When my company makes a profit

It allows me to expand my business, purchase new equipment and hire more employees.

You can't do that if you don't make a profit.

That said, I don't like the idea of long term patents on medicines. It allows the pharmaceutical company to literally hold us hostage for a decade with critical life saving drugs. I understand the companies need to recoup the money spent on R&D and the FDA approval process but there has to be a better way.

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GReedDiamond

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Sun Jan-04-09 01:49 AM
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6. Insurance companies?

What about AIG (American International Group)?

In the trillion-esque dollars "financial services" bailout, they've looted well over 85 billion, I'm sure you'll recall.

And didn't they beg for and receive another 25bil, or am I thinking of some other gang of corporate thieves?

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Shardik

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Sun Jan-04-09 02:23 AM
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7. Point taken...

I guess they have all ready "bellied up to the bar."

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