Ninety five percent of the new drugs coming on the market are
developed for sale in the United States. They are paid for by American
consumers, while other countries, such as Canada, Germany and France,
free ride at our expense. The United States is the last major country
that allows the market to set prices high enough to compensate
pharmaceutical companies for their R&D investments. Obama Care will
increasingly control pharmaceutical prices as costs rise and federal and
state funds fall short. Major pharmaceutical advances will stop (How
well will government labs work?), and the rest of the world will lose
along with Americans.
The negative media pharmaceutical narrative reminds me of the boy who
visited a museum noted for its dinosaurs, who afterwards could only
talk about the teensy-weensy insect he saw in a glass case. Little
details caused him to miss the dinosaur. The same lesson applies to the
pharmaceutical industry – or “Big Pharma” as its critics call it. Yes,
pharmaceutical companies do develop “me-too” drugs, use human subjects
from the third world (Do you want to volunteer?), may cajole family
physicians to prescribe drugs we do not need, and picture tranquil
sleep, unobstructed breathing, and reliable erections in their TV spots.
But these images of “Big Pharma” are the equivalent of the tiny insect
that fascinates the boy who fails to notice the dinosaurs.
go to forbes.com
I knew that it will be happend someday
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