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Re:Nonprofit Working to Block Drug Imports Has Ties to Pharm... by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @12:11PM (#14140010)
I'm not defending a free market in drugs. I actually don't believe such a thing can exist. I'm simply observing the price board does what almost all price boards do: maximizing short-term political gains. It's a response to parent pretending a complex discussion has one true answer.
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Re:Nonprofit Working to Block Drug Imports Has Ties to Pharm... by HarryHirsch on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @12:51PM (#14140437)
In Europe price controls have been in place since the War, if not earlier, and the pharma industry in Germany, France, Belgium, Switzerland and the UK did extremely well until the 1980s.

Pfizer opened their Sandwich site in 1954 and when they closed it in 2011 it wasn't because of the NHS.

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