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[alac-forum] Fwd: a public pharmaceutical company





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From: bernie <bcerone@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun Nov 23, 2003  10:58:31  AM America/New_York
To: forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: a public  pharmaceutical company

the american public is being taken for the "proverbial ride" by its pharmaceutical companies exorbitant prices and profits. they have more money invested in advertising than research and they are supported by public funds in that research that gives them exclusive patent rights that push the prices to unrealistic highs. our politicians are owned by their lobbies and they give protection to them through their laws. if free trade is so important to the politicians why is it that we can't purchase our prescriptions from canada or overseas at supposed "cheap" prices? ( its ok to send our jobs overseas to give us cheaper products at home). due to the importance of health the world over, the idea of a pharmaceutical company solely owned by the people of the world, non-government, non-private, non-profit (without ultra high paid executives) is an idea whose time has come.