Vic
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Originally posted by: Looney
Originally posted by: Vic
Originally posted by: Looney
Originally posted by: IGBT
..to pay for and subsidise all the free med's given to illegals that walk into EM clinics and demand free medical and med's service. No free lunch. Somebody has to pay. Illegal anchor babies also require lots of pre/post med's/medical. All free of course.
That's an ignorant and bigoted statement. Meds themselves, are very very cheap to produce. It's why they can give thousand dollar AIDs meds for nearly free to Africa. It's the R&D, lawsuits, advertisements, etc that's the real cost.
That's like saying that CDs cost pennies to make.
The product is the R&D. Not the pill itself.
No idea WTF you're saying there.
But IGBT claimed that the reason why meds are high is because of the free meds that are given to the illegals to cover the costs of those free meds. It's not. Costs are high because of other reasons i mentioned.
The R&D costs have to recouped, with the patients receiving the meds acting as the pool. If the costs are not spread equally among the pool of patients, then they have to be spread unequally. Granted, poverty-stricken AIDS patients in Africa aren't going to be able to pay anyway, so giving away to them is fine IMO, however they do represent a significant side of the demand for the drug, demand stimulates investment (in this case, R&D), and thus the overall costs do get shifted disproportionately to one side of the patient pool.