Jeff Bezos: Request for ideas

Re:Jeff Bezos: Request for ideas by orbifold on Friday June 16, 2017 @10:20PM (#14573943)

There are many multi billion dollar companies that do pharmaceutical research outside the US, their revenue is not exclusively from the US, suggesting there would be no healthcare without the US, is like suggesting there would be no cars without the US

[Roche](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoffmann-La_Roche) [Merck](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merck_Group) [Bayer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer) [Sanofi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanofi)

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Re:Jeff Bezos: Request for ideas by throwaway-1209 on Friday June 16, 2017 @10:28PM (#14573963)

Merck is a US company. Switzerland has no government provided healthcare and their healthcare costs are also very high.

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Re:Jeff Bezos: Request for ideas by orbifold on Saturday June 17, 2017 @12:48AM (#14574325)

Merck isn't a US company, it is a German company. There is a US company with the same name that originates from a seizure of US assets of the German company with the same name.

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Re:Jeff Bezos: Request for ideas by throwaway-1209 on Saturday June 17, 2017 @01:29AM (#14574433)

Also known as the Merck that actually invents new drugs and rakes in almost three times the revenue of the German counterpart. I wonder if the fact that it's a US company has something to do with that. Hmm.

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