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Thickasabrick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 07:21 PM Original message |
Why would Obama make a deal with the drug makers? Why make |
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ingac70 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 07:25 PM Response to Original message |
1. Universal health care is not on the table. |
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Autumn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 07:27 PM Response to Original message |
2. It's health care FINANCE reform n/t |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 07:35 PM Response to Reply #2 |
8. Exactly. It has nothing to do with healthCARE and everything to do with profits. n/t |
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timeforpeace (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 07:54 PM Response to Reply #8 |
13. But we're supporting this anyway. Why is that? Are we unthinking kool-aid drinkers? |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 08:13 PM Response to Reply #13 |
19. No, the problem with the way healthcare is handled in this country is due ... |
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mzteris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 07:29 PM Response to Original message |
3. ya ever stop to think - |
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Selatius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 07:33 PM Response to Reply #3 |
7. The problem with too many "maybes" is you never know if you got a good deal or got screwed afterall. |
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G_j (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 07:36 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. that's really the point |
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Thickasabrick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 07:41 PM Response to Reply #7 |
11. Agreed - I want to give them every benefit of the doubt but it can't |
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Thickasabrick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 07:37 PM Response to Reply #3 |
10. Ya see, I am too old to just take things on "faith" anymore. Whenever |
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Autumn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 08:06 PM Response to Reply #3 |
16. Maybe he could give us the info that we |
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stray cat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 07:30 PM Response to Original message |
4. A deal is fair if the government pays drug makers for all of their research that doesn't work |
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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 07:50 PM Response to Reply #4 |
12. And when pharma pays government for publicly supported research n/t |
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masuki bance (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 07:31 PM Response to Original message |
5. I want to know why it was done in secret. nt |
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SpartanDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 08:12 PM Response to Reply #5 |
18. The deal wasn't secret it annouced in june |
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masuki bance (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 08:18 PM Response to Reply #18 |
22. Were the neotiations open? That's the issue. nt |
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mzteris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 07:32 PM Response to Original message |
6. some further information - |
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jeanpalmer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 08:16 PM Response to Reply #6 |
21. Looks like no drugs from Canada |
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slipslidingaway (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 07:59 PM Response to Original message |
14. knr .... |
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MarjorieG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 08:03 PM Response to Original message |
15. Not sure about the fine print, making separate legislation later to negotiate. Obama wouldn't sign |
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flyarm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 09:50 PM Response to Reply #15 |
25. oh please! Alot of these big Pharma in this country if ours are foreign Corps! |
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Stuart G (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 08:08 PM Response to Original message |
17. Announcing anything Friday night is questionable.. |
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slipslidingaway (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 08:15 PM Response to Original message |
20. Obama gives powerful drug lobby a seat at healthcare table |
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nightrain (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 09:31 PM Response to Original message |
23. Obama (and Congress) make deals with insurance corporations and drug makers because they |
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flyarm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 09:44 PM Response to Original message |
24. Big Pharma is running commericals pro Obamacare in the Philly -So NJ area.. |
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slipslidingaway (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 09:53 PM Response to Reply #24 |
26. AHIP is also running commercials supporting health care reform... |
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nightrain (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 10:01 PM Response to Reply #24 |
28. consider how many new customers the drug makers will have |
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flyarm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 09:54 PM Response to Original message |
27. White House Affirms Deal on Drug Cost |
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