Re:The $2.7 Trillion Medical Bill
by danmaz74 on Saturday June 01, 2013 @04:10PM
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>> So, you mean that if US drug companies made more money abroad, they would decide to make less money than they possibly can in the US?
>No, I didn't mean anything like that. I have no idea how you got that out of what I said.
You wrote: "This means that pharmaceutical companies have to recoup their fixed costs (R&D) and generate their real profits from the US market" (emphasis mine). What did you mean with that phrase, if not that if they could make their real profits outside the US pharmaceutical companies wouldn't have to recoup their costs in the US?
You wrote: "This means that pharmaceutical companies have to recoup their fixed costs (R&D) and generate their real profits from the US market" (emphasis mine). What did you mean with that phrase, if not that if they could make their real profits outside the US pharmaceutical companies wouldn't have to recoup their costs in the US?