Comments on: Clinton Money Says More Than Clinton Words http://morewhat.com/wordpress/clinton-money-says-more-than-clinton-words/ To build consensus on issues Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:43:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: Stanford Matthews http://morewhat.com/wordpress/clinton-money-says-more-than-clinton-words/#comment-7629 Sat, 16 Jun 2007 21:08:37 +0000 http://morewhat.com/wordpress/clinton-money-says-more-than-clinton-words/#comment-7629 Big Pharma loves telling us about the immense cost to bring drugs to market. I'm not so sure they are being honest. With the money they shove at academic research and anything they retrieve from national labs, etc., I wonder how much it really costs them. I'm not saying Big Pharma is the beast of health care. There is plenty of blame to go around. What has been added to Medicare as 'legitimate' charges for unnecessary expenses is one. But besides the medical and insurance community, the public must shoulder equal burden for this mess. I miss the 80/20 days of 100% employer paid health insurance. I appreciated it then and would like to have it now. I have two anecdotes from years ago I may share in another post some time. Big Pharma loves telling us about the immense cost to bring drugs to market. I’m not so sure they are being honest. With the money they shove at academic research and anything they retrieve from national labs, etc., I wonder how much it really costs them.
I’m not saying Big Pharma is the beast of health care. There is plenty of blame to go around. What has been added to Medicare as ‘legitimate’ charges for unnecessary expenses is one. But besides the medical and insurance community, the public must shoulder equal burden for this mess.
I miss the 80/20 days of 100% employer paid health insurance. I appreciated it then and would like to have it now. I have two anecdotes from years ago I may share in another post some time.

]]> by: Perri Nelson http://morewhat.com/wordpress/clinton-money-says-more-than-clinton-words/#comment-7536 Fri, 15 Jun 2007 22:03:18 +0000 http://morewhat.com/wordpress/clinton-money-says-more-than-clinton-words/#comment-7536 With modern American Socialists (formerly Democratic Party members), it's always "socialism for thee - and not for me." There's yet more to it... this may be more about appearance than than substance. If Hillary has her way, "big pharma" and "big oil" and "big wal-mart" will all come tumbling down. She may just be hedging her bets against her own success, figuring it's better to have the cash than paper that will be worthless after her depredations. As a side note: The real problem with high prescription costs isn't "big pharma" in the first place. It's socialist healthcare ala medicare and "big insurance" having a stranglehold on how people pay for their healthcare. When people don't actually pay the bill themselves, but have an insurance company do it for them, there's no price competition. Just my $0.02 With modern American Socialists (formerly Democratic Party members), it’s always “socialism for thee - and not for me.” There’s yet more to it… this may be more about appearance than than substance.

If Hillary has her way, “big pharma” and “big oil” and “big wal-mart” will all come tumbling down. She may just be hedging her bets against her own success, figuring it’s better to have the cash than paper that will be worthless after her depredations.

As a side note: The real problem with high prescription costs isn’t “big pharma” in the first place. It’s socialist healthcare ala medicare and “big insurance” having a stranglehold on how people pay for their healthcare. When people don’t actually pay the bill themselves, but have an insurance company do it for them, there’s no price competition.

Just my $0.02

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