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Farmer-Rick

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1. Ahhh, the wonders of the free market

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sat Oct 28, 2023, 08:46 AM

Oct 2023

The Filthy-rich capitalists use government funded research to develop their medicines.

They then turn around and force people to pay, pay, pay for life saving treatments. Ofcourse no matter how high they set the price, people on the verge of death are going to pay.

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COVID-19 treatments to enter the market with a hefty price tag [View all] BumRushDaShow Oct 2023 OP

Ahhh, the wonders of the free market Farmer-Rick Oct 2023 #1

Merk and Pfizer, gouging Americans for every penny. sarcasmo Oct 2023 #2

Didn't we already pay angrychair Oct 2023 #3

The government, usually through NIH, will provide grants BumRushDaShow Oct 2023 #4

I'll need to do some digging angrychair Oct 2023 #7

LOL no... BumRushDaShow Oct 2023 #12

Then government needs to pull all funding angrychair Oct 2023 #14

Remember that what you are arguing BumRushDaShow Oct 2023 #15

I get that angrychair Oct 2023 #17

Well now you can't say that pharmaceutical products "give little to no benefit to the taxpayers". BumRushDaShow Oct 2023 #18

We also paid as alpha and beta testers for each round of new Covid medications. The data from those "test subjects"... usaf-vet Oct 2023 #8

How much is your life worth to you is the basic underpinning of this gouging Blues Heron Oct 2023 #5

I wonder if the copay assistance will follow the norm and exclude Ms. Toad Oct 2023 #6

Nationalize the meds that our tax money paid to invent. Magoo48 Oct 2023 #9

This. area51 Oct 2023 #10

forteen hundred dollars for a handful of pills - outrageous. Blues Heron Oct 2023 #11

A GOP tactic: charge a huge amount, we complain, they cut the price in half (but are still making a killing). C Moon Oct 2023 #13

Your money or your life? IcyPeas Oct 2023 #16