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BuyingThyme (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 04:44 PM Original message |
How much would heath care costs be reduced if we were to deregulate pharmaceuticals? |
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ejpoeta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 04:47 PM Response to Original message |
1. how about if we just negotiated with the drug companies instead of letting them |
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BuyingThyme (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 04:48 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Yes, deregulation. |
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Oregone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 04:48 PM Response to Original message |
2. Do you mean revise patent laws instead of "deregulate" |
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BuyingThyme (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 04:50 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. We can allow them to gouge on exports, but it seems that |
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johnaries (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 04:55 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Yes, because deregulation works so well. The current |
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BuyingThyme (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 05:08 PM Response to Reply #5 |
11. I think you're missing the point of my post. |
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johnaries (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 07:29 PM Response to Reply #11 |
23. And I think you miss the point of deregulation and "Free Trade" |
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Mz Pip (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 05:00 PM Response to Original message |
6. I also wonder how much |
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Rosa Luxemburg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 05:02 PM Response to Original message |
7. and also the companies that produce medical equipment |
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BuyingThyme (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 05:05 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. Deregulate. |
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county worker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 05:02 PM Response to Original message |
8. I haven't seen any deregulation that hasn't cost me more money. |
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phantom power (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 05:08 PM Response to Original message |
10. If we stripped patent protection for drugs, I think two things would happen... |
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BuyingThyme (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 05:12 PM Response to Reply #10 |
12. Well, now that the regulations are destroying our country, |
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phantom power (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 05:16 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. What I'd like to see is some medical advances developed by govt... |
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BuyingThyme (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 05:17 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. I think our government-sponsored universities do that, |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 07:07 PM Response to Reply #13 |
22. gov't funds *still* pay for most basic drug research. then the corps get to |
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ashling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 05:30 PM Response to Original message |
15. That's not a deregulation issue, it is a patent issue |
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BuyingThyme (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 05:33 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. Why do we look at patent regulations as something other than regulations? |
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ashling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 02:41 PM Response to Reply #16 |
25. Basic hierarchy of laws - regulations are made and enforced by |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 06:07 PM Response to Original message |
17. Um, I WANT prescription drugs regulated. We don't need to go back to the days of |
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BuyingThyme (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 06:09 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. I'm not talking about removing FDA oversight and like that. |
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Ozymanithrax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 06:19 PM Response to Original message |
19. Patents and deregulation are not the same thing. |
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BuyingThyme (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 06:21 PM Response to Reply #19 |
20. I've been regulated right out of the pharmaceuticals market. |
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Ozymanithrax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 07:04 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. Medicine made in the same factory are sold for very different prices... |
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johnaries (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 07:30 PM Response to Reply #20 |
24. How so? Perhaps your back-story would help explain your position. |
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