re: #231 Simply Sarah

Also, don’t forget when the GOPdemanded that Medicare pay more for prescription drugs, because it wouldn’t be fair for the government to negotiate with manufactures on pricing.

Negotiate?

A pharmaceutical company cannot negotiate with the government. It must simply do as ordered, and if the price that the government negotiates [orders] is less than what is required to maintain an R&D program, that R&D program withers. Pharmaceutical companies don’t excite the stock market…because their current prices are insufficient to throw off attractive profits while maintaining R&D so that those profits can be sustained.

The U.S. is at the leading edge in pharmaceutical research for a reason. European nations have already negotiated with their pharmaceutical companies.

What the Left forgets is that bacteria also have their own, massively parallel, R&D effort. If we don’t match it, we lose. Bit by bit, all our current arsenal of antibiotics loses its effectiveness.