yes, you said that beforei've already siad what needs to be done to fix the drug companiesNow you've gone and made me hungry.
Drug companies should be next. Did you see my link I posted in the thread last night?
stop allowing them to over charge Americans to give cut rate prices to citizens of other countries
if a detrol pill costs $10 here, it should cost $10 everywhere
(no, i dont know how much detrol costs, thats just an example)
Yes, and then there is this:
A new study by two York University researchers estimates the U.S. pharmaceutical industry spends almost twice as much on promotion as it does on research and development, contrary to the industrys claim.
The researchers estimate is based on the systematic collection of data directly from the industry and doctors during 2004, which shows the U.S. pharmaceutical industry spent 24.4% of the sales dollar on promotion, versus 13.4% for research and development, as a percentage of US domestic sales of $235.4 billion.
Big Pharma Spends More On Advertising Than Research And Development, Study Finds
http://www.usmessageboard.com/1398928-post2.html
and i dont think they should be advertising either
but, how do you stop that and not violate their first amendment rights?
as to the lobbying, i'm all for that reform as well
see my above post
that change would make it one hell of a lot harder to "BUY" enough congress people