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Old 01-19-2009, 02:14 PM  
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This just made me curious about something... if American companies create most of the drugs, and every other country in the world has regulations on what the drugs can sell for... what that really means is, the Americans are paying the high price of research and development while the rest of the world gets cheap drugs based on the import policies of their countries. Hmm...
Good point. But the really sad thing is that Americans are really just just subsidizing advertising. Pharma companies spend much more on advertising and promotion then they do on R&D.
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