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04/01/13, 05:50 PM
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The OP is just a capitalist bashing post. .
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Precisely why so many people believe the GOP is out of touch with reality.
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04/01/13, 05:59 PM
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Precisely why so many people believe the GOP is out of touch with reality.
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And that is precisely why so may ARE out of touch because they THINK the GOP is gone. Well it is NOT, it will come back even stronger then ever.
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04/01/13, 06:12 PM
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Maybe after some take a look at the graphs on this page, they may become a little more enraged....
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...are-ludicrous/
Especially these graphs...
And there you go.. they are paid so well, because they are so good at ripping off the American public... They have us brain washed into believing they are doing it ALL for the public's good, and because we fall in line thinking Capitalism is the perfect system..
Health care in the US (and the drug industry) is just one more scam in the big scheme of things.. I see things in the legal world concerning drug companies that would turn your stomach...
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04/01/13, 07:34 PM
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Originally Posted by MO_cows
Where do you shop? Do they have this information posted on the shelf??
With the average store selling tens of thousands of individual items, plus the conglomeration of brands where many different brands are actually owned by the same corporation, not to mention that "store brands" are usually made by another company and labeled for the store like CVS, WalMart or whatever, when you are at the "point of purchase" it's a little tough to know whether the company that makes aspirin brand A, B, C or D is the one whose practices you like the best (or least). So it's quite easy to say it is not rocket surgery, just don't buy it, but a lot harder to actually DO it.
With that being said, I do believe we vote with where we spend our money and don't spend our money, but it just isn't easy most of the time to make a truly informed choice.
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Look at the label and you can see who manufactured the product and you can look at the top of the post to find the rest of the info.
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04/01/13, 07:59 PM
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Originally Posted by MO_cows
Where do you shop? Do they have this information posted on the shelf??
With the average store selling tens of thousands of individual items, plus the conglomeration of brands where many different brands are actually owned by the same corporation, not to mention that "store brands" are usually made by another company and labeled for the store like CVS, WalMart or whatever, when you are at the "point of purchase" it's a little tough to know whether the company that makes aspirin brand A, B, C or D is the one whose practices you like the best (or least). So it's quite easy to say it is not rocket surgery, just don't buy it, but a lot harder to actually DO it.
With that being said, I do believe we vote with where we spend our money and don't spend our money, but it just isn't easy most of the time to make a truly informed choice.
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I shop anywhere I choose. I am not the one bashing the CEO's salaries. But I am capable of reading the label to see who makes the product.
My point was that the consumer could vote with their dollars.
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04/01/13, 08:03 PM
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Originally Posted by plowjockey
It would be interesting to see, if you feel the same, if you had to pay $2400 a year, for one prescription, to enable you to keep alive.
Jealousy?
Personally, I could care less, if they are paid one billion dollars per year, if their medicines, were at least close to being reasonable priced.
But they are not.
The Right really shows their ignorance, by playing right into the scam.
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No one forces you to buy the 2400 dollar Rx. You would choose to do it to extend your life. That is a choice for each individual to make.
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04/01/13, 08:30 PM
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Nexium is manufactured by Astrazenica in Sweden. Stop and Shop is owned by a Swedish company too. Does anybody know that Budweiser is owned by Belgians?
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04/01/13, 08:31 PM
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Follow the money trail out of the U.S.
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04/02/13, 12:09 AM
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Originally Posted by nchobbyfarm
I shop anywhere I choose. I am not the one bashing the CEO's salaries. But I am capable of reading the label to see who makes the product.
My point was that the consumer could vote with their dollars.
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I totally agree that we vote with our dollars. I looked at some of the meds in our house. The prescription ones do say "manufactured by" in the small print. But that still doesn't tell me that "mfg by" company A is owned by holding company B under the umbrella of mega corp C. The generic OTC stuff we have just says "distributed by", not who it was made by. So I still don't know who I voted for!
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04/02/13, 09:16 AM
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For a year I was getting my scripts via mail.
Using Humana now on many of the bottles it DID SAY product of India, and other places OUTSIDE the USA. That is how come Humana can get lower priced Generic drugs. And can offer them and NO CO-PAY for their Medicare Advantage Clientele.
So Insurance companies ARE SHOPPING Outside of the USA to get drugs~!!!!
Now getting back to those expensive Class 4 drugs like Enbrel, Humira etc. for RA folks yes those drugs ARE expensive, but it was MY CHOICE to go on them NOBODY FORCES a person to take said drugs.
Now by taking them for a few years at MY CHOICE I am no longer on those high powered drugs, and my severe RA is at a manageable stage where i can just take OTC ones to control the inflammation and pain that is associated with it.
thank Goodness For Big Farma.
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