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Re:Nonprofit Working to Block Drug Imports Has Ties to Pharm... by rhizome on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @02:04PM (#14141246)
Lots of people are working on this, but there are also lots of moving parts. It sounds like you know how large the health industry is, do you have any idea how hard it is to change a multi-trillion dollar market?

Evergreen suggested reading: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2009/04/have-you-ever-legali...

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Re:Nonprofit Working to Block Drug Imports Has Ties to Pharm... by joering2 on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @02:49PM (#14141696)
okay I guess in this case since its such a big issue, let's leave it like it is and add another 10 trillion in debt because we need to pay 400x what other countries pay for the same drug.
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Re:Nonprofit Working to Block Drug Imports Has Ties to Pharm... by rhizome on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @06:43PM (#14143693)
Fallacy of the excluded middle, man. There's other options.
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