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    Quote Originally Posted by sturg33 View Post
    How do you reconcile companies making too much profit while also saying their product is too expensive for anyone to buy? Gilead for example, has basically eradicated Hep C. They dont make any more money on the drug bc there are no more patients left to cure.

    These cures dont grow on ****ing trees. It takes billions of dollars and many years to get them to market. And on top of that, over 90% of drugs never make it to market.

    You want these companies to risk billions of dollars with no upside of profiting from it?
    The government will do it all more efficiently. Just like all other government run programs.

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    There is a tradeoff between incentives to speed up medical innovation and making medical care more widely available and affordable. Different countries will choose different points along that continuum. The same country will make different choices at different points in time. There is no "right" choice that is somehow determined by never changing principles.
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    Well sir, if this is a witch hunt looks like the dogs about got Hazel treed.

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    Pompeo was in on the call with Ukraine.

    Welp [MENTION=89]nsacpi[/MENTION] there was a time a while ago when you said Pompeo was one of the few adults in the admin with any sort of brain to govern. Looks like he's been in-on Trump's swamp draining since forever.
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    Quite a statement from Michael Atkinson, the IC IG.
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    This administration is a scandal-making factory.
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    Seems like quite a few people dont want anyone to research how the 2016 spying scandal started.

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    It's worth mentioning again that this $#'tstorm is a 100% unforced error. There is zero political reason for Trump to still be obsessed with Biden and the Russia probe.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Runnin View Post
    It's worth mentioning again that this $#'tstorm is a 100% unforced error. There is zero political reason for Trump to still be obsessed with Biden and the Russia probe.
    This is 100% wrong. He has orderred the justice department to learn about the origins of spygate.

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    How dare Trump talk to Australia.

    IMPEACH!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by zitothebrave View Post
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    Can someone helpe understand when and for what reasons a president can speak to another foreign leader?

    Was Ukraine solicited for help by the prior administration? How about Italy? Australia? UK?

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    Quote Originally Posted by thethe View Post
    Can someone helpe understand when and for what reasons a president can speak to another foreign leader?

    Was Ukraine solicited for help by the prior administration? How about Italy? Australia? UK?
    From what I gather there is nothing wrong with the request for info from Australia. It seems quite different from trying to strong arm Ukraine into manufacturing dirt on Biden.
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    Quote Originally Posted by nsacpi View Post
    From what I gather there is nothing wrong with the request for info from Australia. It seems quite different from trying to strong arm Ukraine into manufacturing dirt on Biden.
    Strongarm without them knowing the bargaining chip?
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    Quote Originally Posted by The Chosen One View Post
    Pompeo was in on the call with Ukraine.

    Welp [MENTION=89]nsacpi[/MENTION] there was a time a while ago when you said Pompeo was one of the few adults in the admin with any sort of brain to govern. Looks like he's been in-on Trump's swamp draining since forever.
    I've developed some doubts about Pompeo but am reassured that Seb Gorka is travelling to Rome with him.
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    Quote Originally Posted by thethe View Post
    Seems like quite a few people dont want anyone to research how the 2016 spying scandal started.
    He would've been much better off not looking a gift horse in the mouth, with regards to his lucky break with the Mueller probe, which btw, clearly showed his guilt in several areas.

    Continuing to obsess over it is one of the dumbest things he's done so far, and that's saying a lot.
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    Quote Originally Posted by thethe View Post
    Can someone helpe understand when and for what reasons a president can speak to another foreign leader?

    Was Ukraine solicited for help by the prior administration? How about Italy? Australia? UK?
    A trustworthy president can speak to foreign leaders without worry.
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    Quote Originally Posted by sturg33 View Post
    How do you reconcile companies making too much profit while also saying their product is too expensive for anyone to buy? Gilead for example, has basically eradicated Hep C. They dont make any more money on the drug bc there are no more patients left to cure.

    These cures dont grow on ****ing trees. It takes billions of dollars and many years to get them to market. And on top of that, over 90% of drugs never make it to market.

    You want these companies to risk billions of dollars with no upside of profiting from it?
    Yes, there's sooooooo many billions they spend on developing insulin, a drugs that's been around for 100 years.....

    Give me an effing break. Big pharma is nothing but a monopoly and you know it. 3 companies in the world control over 90 percent of the pharma industry.

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