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Originally Posted by golfing eagles

EXCEPT-------It takes over $800 million from first idea to manufacture to bring a new drug to market, and the largest cost is FEDERAL RED TAPE and the resulting hoops to jump through. Safer, probably, but way more expensive. The part I object to is the drug companies spreading that $ 800M only over the domestic market, and then selling the same pills abroad at a substantially lower price. We are subsidizing the rest of the world, when in all fairness, the rest of the world should be paying us for our research and innovation

YES!!