If they will sell in Canada for 60% of what they do here, they will sell here for the same amount.
Threatening to take away R&D is a hollow threat if ever I heard one. Let them! Then, all the new medicine will come out of universities. The big R&D these days doesn't go to necessary drugs anyway, it goes into consumer-demand drugs like Viagara/Lavitra.
Socialistic market practices not only drive costs down, they can also drive them up. We have our fair share of socialistic market practices here as well, ours just drive prices up.
What do you think the FDA approval regs are if not socialism affecting the market? It's still socialistic -- just because the government is in bed with big business rather than whacking big business in the name of "the people" doesn't mean it's not socialism.
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