Rick Santorum defends absurd drug prices

No surprise here, a rich "christian" congressman, defending drug companies charging high prices for medications. How out of touch with reality he is? Who the hell can afford paying $1 million a year for a life dependent drug? I guess freedom and health are only as good as you can afford. Profits above everything, right cons?

 

This super-sleaze is SO bad for America, and most people have no clue about him, probably mostly by the very ones that support him.

 

Well, are you saying it's not true?

Why do you think drug companies develop new drugs?

Out of an eagerness to make the world a better place?

 

I see so you find nothing wrong with everyday people not being able to afford certain medications simply because it costs way too much?

 

Your moral outrage does not outweigh economic truth. Why do you keep trying to push your populist morals off on people who do not share them?

 

I have no doubt you agree that only the rich should have access to life saving drugs. My "populist morals" as you put it are shared by a 200 million other people.

 

Not surprising. Its like Republican darling Paul Ryan who used social security to pay his way through college, but now wants to gut the very system that allowed him to improve his lot in life.

http://www.politicususa.com/en/paul-ryan-social-security

Ryan's argument is that such programs breed dependency.

Republicans are hypocrites to the core, every last one of them.

 

Where did liberals get the idea that drugs should be free?

Developing drugs is a risky business since most of the promising research is expensive but does not lead to a new drug.

If drug companies were not profitable investors would put their money someplace else where the risk is not so great.

Libs complain about the cost of drugs without giving any credit to the drug companies for bringing them these miracle drugs to do so much to help people.

 

Yup and for the low low price of 1 million dollars a year!

 

So in your perfect world the drug companies work for the peanuts you throw at them and still continue to astound us with their medical breakthroughs?

There was a report of a new drug that may cure cancer.

If it turns out to be successful think of how many lives will be saved that would otherwise die if economically illiterate liberals were calling the shots.

 

If there was a drug that cured cancer not very many people benefit from it since it would likely cost more than most people make in 10 years. Profits above everything right?

 

I don't know about that.

Initially the drug would be expensive.

The first automobiles were rather costly and only the rich could afford them.

But later the price came down and practically everyone has a car now.

And so does the price of new drugs fall over time.

 

Oh really? Much like those AIDS drugs right?

 

Ask Magic Johnson if AID's drugs are worth whatever they cost.

If libs were waiting for some pointy-headed bureaucrat at the Department of Free Drugs to defeat the AID's virus Johnson would probably be dead by now.

 

You know this is not a game where you have to return every serve to win.

I think you are smart enough to see the logic of what I'm saying.

Why don't you just admit it and move on to some other topic more favorable to your side?

 

You should only be able to get subsidized drugs if it is very necessary for you, to the extent where you're in agonizing pain, and you're not a criminal, and are looking for or have a job.

 

Well, you do support Chinese people being essentially coerced into working for peanuts..

 

I don't live in China so I really don't know enough about the facts to micro-manage their economy from here.

I'll leave that to the know-it-all liberals.

But it does seem like another good reason to put a tariff on imported Chinese products and perhaps think about building the iPads in America instead.

 

It requires being a "know it all" to know that China outlaws unions and any kind of workers' rights?

Maybe the right wing should stop claiming to hate communists so much!

 

So how much of my money do you want to pay for your meds?

Do you have any idea the cost of bringing one drung to market? All the R&D needed for that drug?

Libs seems to think everything in life should be "free" and they are cool with other people footing the bill for their wants, needs, and desires

 

You don't see unions in communist countries because the State has full control of everything.

I've given you the solution and you ignored it.

No one if forcing outraged liberals to do business with China.

Put a tariff on products imported from China and build stuff in America again.

 

All tarifs do is start trade wars which end up hurting the working folks in America when they lose their jobs

 

A trade war with China?

We buy $300 billion a year more from them than they buy from us.

What do you have to fear from a trade war with them except a lower balance of payments deficit and more jobs for American workers?

 

We buy due to the cheap cost. If the cost increases we will buy less and prices here will go up

Which is fine since the cost of nearly everything is going up thanks to Obamnomics - but we are told there is no inflation

 

ALL that R&D!

What a joke.

Pharmaceutical companies spend more on advertising than on research.

http://noedb.org/library/features/25-shocking-facts-about-the-pharmaceutical-industry