On 15.10.2009, at 22:04, David Patrick Henderson wrote: > On 15 Oct 2009, at 12:46, LuKreme wrote: > >> There's enough Democrats whose souls have been bought and paid for by >> Big Pharma to keep any railroading from working. > > The Pharma industry favors government expenditure on healthcare as > they've benefitted greatly from the changes to medicare and have been > suffering from tremendous sales losses during this recession as people > switch heavily to generics to save $.
What "people" would that be ? There is no one "big pharma". Big Pharma in terms of the big companies with massive pipeline dependency have very little interest in competing with generic manufacturers once Patents expire. As soon as a generic manufacturer can legally start selling a particular drug, the market switches en mass to the generic, regardless of the prevailing economic conditions. I'm sure you know at least a little about "pipelines". Those "big pharma" companies complaining about losses (when what they actually mean is reduced profits) are those that haven't maintained their pipelines. The number of big pharma companies in pipeline difficulties is currently high, but this also has nothing whatsoever to do with prevailing economic conditions. Big Pharma buys political clout in the same way that the oil, banking and car manufacturing industries do, so it is neither better nor worse than these. I'd be surprised if it was the case in the US, that big pharma "owns" dem votes to a greater extent than it owns republican votes. A converse might however be true, that other industries rampant with lobbyism are less successful in buying dem votes. _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
