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Old 10-14-2011, 04:15 PM  
cess
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We donate, drugs and treatments are developed with our donations, then we're charged astronomical amounts of money for the treatments and the drugs we've provided, or left to die because we can't afford them.
That 3.5B is probably nothing compared to the grants pharmaceutical companies get to develop new drugs. I can't remember where I read it exactly but I think it's about 60% of the cost to develop new drugs is funded by government grants.
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