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Originally posted by onetime2
The costs are nowhere close to comparable, even when you throw the cost of a salesforce into the "advertising" mix. The average R&D costs (including research on drugs that don't pan out) of bringing a new drug through the entire R&D and government approval process is about $800 million*. You then have to recoup your costs during the patent protected period of the drug before someone else takes your work and sells it. In most cases the patents already are nearly half over before the drug even gets to market.
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Oh really?
Read this.....
http://www.actupny.org/reports/drugcosts.html
and, well, don't listen to me, maybe you will listen to Stanford University.
http://mednews.stanford.edu/releases...aceutical.html
The other neat little thing the pharmaceuticals do is make a small change to a patented drug (once the patent runs out), then get a new patent for a drug that does exactly the same thing.
Pretty neat trick!!!
No, I have no faith in the big phramaceutical companies to "do the right thing", anymore than i have faith in the big oil companies to protect the environment.