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likesmountains 52 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-11 10:24 AM
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WWL's Garland Robinette's rant re: drug shortages in the US. Good rant!
http://www.wwl.com/Garland--NO-DEATH-PANELS--right---So-why-are-they-/10714315
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NOLALady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-11 10:50 AM
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1. Kick
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RaleighNCDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-11 11:23 AM
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2. What bothers me most about this is that the drugs are not produced because of
low profit margins.

LOW profit margins. A LOW profit margin is STILL a profit. And if you save a life making a LOW profit today, that person will probably continue to give you higher profits on other things later - which they will NOT do if they are DEAD.

That's what you get when you put MBAs in charge of health care.
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pansypoo53219 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-11 11:57 AM
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3. wall street STOCK MARKET
DEMANDS high profit.
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RaleighNCDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-11 12:26 PM
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4. As I said. They don't invest in companies on Wall Street. They
gamble on numbers.

For the Wall Street MBAs, and the boardroom MBAs, what matters are the next quarter numbers, not long-term sustainability. That's why the entire world economy is in the crapper today.
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socialist_n_TN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-11 01:21 PM
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5. Wall Street doesn't just demand high profits
it demands high SHORT TERM profits. If they can't see it in this quarter, the profit doesn't exist.
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likesmountains 52 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-11 02:59 PM
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6. kick for later
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