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| DATE | 2005-04-29 |
| FROM | dspira@att.net (Dave_att)
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| SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Rx Ripoff
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DITTO!
this is obviously a smear campaign against the pharmaceutical industrty. A pharmacist knows his business depends on his customers. would they chance ruining their business by overcharging on a non generic medication? It makes no sense.
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Ron Guerin
> Michael L. Richardson wrote:
>
> > I don't know how true this is.
>
> I wouldn't put too much stock in it, for if it comes from a budget
> analyst for the Dept. of Commerce, then she knows she's prepared a
> deliberately misleading report that opens with a scandalous chart about
> non-generic drugs and then goes on to complain about the cost of the
> generics.
>
> The cost of the non-generics, which is what she's trying to enrage
> people with has little to nothing to do with the cost of the active
> ingredient itself, and everything to do with the cost of discovering/
> creating the drug, testing it, and accounting for potential liability.
>
> I have little doubt we're being ripped off, but this piece is garbage.
>
> - Ron
>
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