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primitive offers solution to high drug prices
« on: September 04, 2016, 09:23:09 AM »
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018892014

Oh my.

<<<has a better solution to high drug prices; just don't live a life-style where one ends up having to use them.

As silly as that might sound, it's certainly no sillier than the primitive's idea.

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Sunriser13 (52 posts)     Fri Sep 2, 2016, 08:42 AM

I have a solution to outrageous RX drug prices
 
It's really very simple, and I believe it would be something quickly implemented.

Allow no drug to cost a penny more than VIAGRA.

None. Not cancer drugs, not RA drugs, not psych meds, not asthma meds. None. Not blood pressure meds, not epinepherine, not insulin. None. Period.

Access to life-saving and life extending medications should not be an option for only the rich.

Absolutely nothing allowed to be priced higher than Viagra.

Betcha' prices would plummet so fast it would make our heads spin faster than that girl's in 'The Exorcist'. 

Yawn.  Okay.

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TexasTowelie (27,908 posts)      Fri Sep 2, 2016, 08:44 AM

1. In that case the price of Viagra will go through the roof
 
and millions of women throughout the country will be very relieved!

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Sunriser13 (52 posts)      Fri Sep 2, 2016, 08:50 AM

2. So freeze the price of Viagra first,
 
perhaps by tacking it to some war funding bill.

Then follow up with this legislation separately.

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Initech (53,733 posts)      Fri Sep 2, 2016, 09:40 AM

3. Normal drug prices:
 
Normal drug prices: 8
Viagra prices: 888888888888888888888888888888888 

Okay.  This might, or might not, be a stupid question.  But at least it's a legitimate question.

I have no idea how much Viagra costs, because I've never needed to buy the product.

The primitives seem to be suggesting it's pretty expensive.  True or not?
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Re: primitive offers solution to high drug prices
« Reply #1 on: September 04, 2016, 09:47:03 AM »
Great idea, Dummy. Nationalize the industry, enact price controls, and eliminate the supply of thousands of medications which instantly become more expensive to produce then the new "fair" price.

Like every Dummy solution, it is disastrous. ****ing assholes.
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Re: primitive offers solution to high drug prices
« Reply #2 on: September 04, 2016, 09:49:20 AM »
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Absolutely nothing allowed to be priced higher than Viagra.

Betcha' prices would plummet so fast it would make our heads spin faster than that girl's in 'The Exorcist'.

Betcha if your wet dream were to come true, pharmaceutical companies would lose interest in investing the billions of $$ it takes to develop, test, get approval for and market the next big cure for various illnesses and you DUmmies would be demanding the government to force them to continue R&D on their own dime.
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Re: primitive offers solution to high drug prices
« Reply #3 on: September 04, 2016, 09:58:30 AM »
Whoa.

I just nadined the cost of Viagra.

It appears to be about forty-five bucks a pill.

Whoa.

Is it worth it?  If I ever had to pay forty-five bucks to have good sex, well, I'd pass.
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Re: primitive offers solution to high drug prices
« Reply #4 on: September 04, 2016, 10:23:20 AM »
Whoa.

I just nadined the cost of Viagra.

It appears to be about forty-five bucks a pill.

Whoa.

Is it worth it?  If I ever had to pay forty-five bucks to have good sex, well, I'd pass.
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Re: primitive offers solution to high drug prices
« Reply #5 on: September 04, 2016, 10:28:28 AM »
Sounds about as viable as Jill Stein's idea to pay for social programs.

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Re: primitive offers solution to high drug prices
« Reply #6 on: September 04, 2016, 10:29:28 AM »
Betcha if your wet dream were to come true, pharmaceutical companies would lose interest in investing the billions of $$ it takes to develop, test, get approval for and market the next big cure for various illnesses and you DUmmies would be demanding the government to force them to continue R&D on their own dime.

I dunno where the primitives get this idea that people can be forced to do something they really don't want to do.

It's true it happened under socialism--at the point of a gun, and inefficiently and ineffectively so; they might as well not even tried to compel.

But we got these primitives who think, for example, that medical professionals can be forced to work for minimum wage.

Never in the whole entire history of mankind has compulsion ever worked; it's long past time for Democrats, liberals, and primitives to give up their Quixotesque ideas, contemplating on what works, rather than what's never worked.
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Re: primitive offers solution to high drug prices
« Reply #7 on: September 04, 2016, 11:15:28 AM »
Great idea, Dummy. Nationalize the industry, enact price controls, and eliminate the supply of thousands of medications which instantly become more expensive to produce then the new "fair" price.

Like every Dummy solution, it is disastrous. ****ing assholes.

Absolutely! Look how well it's worked in Venezuela!

Now I think about it, don't a lot of DU-folk believe Venezuela is doing well?
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Re: primitive offers solution to high drug prices
« Reply #8 on: September 04, 2016, 11:22:54 AM »
Absolutely! Look how well it's worked in Venezuela!

Now I think about it, don't a lot of DU-folk believe Venezuela is doing well?

Dummy-speak: "In America, you have to stand in line at the grocery store. There are no bread lines in Venezuela."

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Re: primitive offers solution to high drug prices
« Reply #9 on: September 04, 2016, 12:40:42 PM »
They have no concept of business or markets.
Viagera is something that a large portion of nearly half the population may use at some point.
That is a pretty good market target.

Other drugs have less then 10% of the population utilizing them so the production costs are offset by a much smaller market.

DUmbasses are just stupid.