re: #226 darthstar

People don’t have to buy a new iPad every 30 days to stay alive.

A number of people pointed that out in the comments.

Oh, Rick. When someone spends $900 for an Ipad, it’s something they’ll have for a few years. However, medication needs to keep being replenished every 30 days. So if your medication costs $900, that’s $900 every month which comes out to be $10,800/year. Which, for most Americans, is almost half their yearly income.

What did Senator Frothy say about that?

“He’s alive today because drug companies provide care,” Santorum said. “And if they didn’t think they could make money providing that drug, that drug wouldn’t be here. I sympathize with these compassionate cases. … I want your son to stay alive on much-needed drugs. Fact is, we need companies to have incentives to make drugs. If they don’t have incentives, they won’t make those drugs. We either believe in markets or we don’t.

I sympathize kid…but we got money ta make and you are gonna give us the money or choke. Which will it be, kid?