Drugmaker ads to target Obama idea

Keep things as they are..nothing is free and we already pay for those who don't have insurance don't make it legal to steal!Those who don't have some of the best insurance..none. They just walk in and are taken care of no questions asked...unlike those of us with income and insurance, we get to pay for theirs.

They should also be ready to target BHO and Kennedy for the socialized health plan they will introduce. It will be just like nationwide Medicaid for us all and never work.

Pharmaceuticals depend on people being sick and buying medicine. Private or government, it doesn't matter. To cut the cost both government and pharmaceuticals should work in a program of 'well being'. An educational system that guides people to live a healthier life. That will cut the cost within the 90% of population. The research will need to focus on the 10% of serious cases. There are new markets opening for pharmaceuticals in the wellness industry! Here needs more contribution. I SHOULD SAY: SHAME ON THEM !! THESE DIFFICULT TIMES WE HAVE TO BE INNOVATIVE TO BRING REAL VALUE NOT CREATE ANOTHER BUBBLE. AMERICA IS GREAT BECAUSE OF THE ENTREPRENEURIAL FREE AND CONSTRUCTIVE SPIRIT! Freedom is tandem with responsibility.

Democratic victory cry: Free at last! Everything is free at last!

I take Lipitor every day. I pay for it without complaint because I can live a longer, happier, and more productive life. If Lipitor had been available for my father, he would have been around for another ten years and his grandchildren would have gotten to know him. I have invested in the parmaceutical companies because of what they do. I will soon start selling those investments because my money won't be used to find new solutions for medical problems. It will be used to manage the transition of pharmaceutical companies to generic drug providers and to move them overseas.

"a multimillion-dollar public relations campaign" Great! Fight fire with fire! They're going to match Obama's election campaigne and "spread that wealth." Free enterprise fighting against the Obama Nation. Obama won using money so chances are the pharmaceutical industry will also be victorious. Big money talks big in America.

setrock, I agree with you. Nobody can play with people's life. 2500 yrs ago HYPOCRATES pledge was to serve people. Not to create a system with blood suckers! Are we in 21st century, BC or AD???? do I hear an answer????

I used to believe that pharma profits were to high. Then I read a recent court case where a major drug manufacturer was found liable for a generic drug makers failure to provide the proper usage guidelines. Since the pharma companies are apparently liable for what other drug manufactuers do when they make a competing product, I can understand why they need to charge so much in the US. Its our laws and our courts which add considerably to the costs of doing business in the US.

SetRockhead, you do have a choice. You can stop taking your meds, drop dead, and do us all a favor. You and MarcoPolo (named, I assume after the game with one's eyes closed all the time) don't seem to understand that your BP meds probably would not even EXIST if their was no profit in creating it. When it takes several years to develop a drug, and a large percentage of those developed never even make it to market, and the one's that do are copied by companies that never had to pay the R&D costs, the "HUGE" profits are not even commensurate to the HUGE risks they assume in even starting. Name a medical breakthrough that came out of China? Viet-Nam? Venezuela? Cuba? the former USSR? I didn't think you could. Get over the class warfare Kool-Aid you have been fed by the Chairman Elect, and realize that Conservatism and the free market work.

While I am not a fan of nationalized heathcare, and I am a proponent of innovation and free markets, I have seen first hand the wasteful spending that goes on in the drug industry. You think those retreats the AIG executives took were elaborate? That is par for the course at drug companies. The salaries and bonuses paid to sales and marketing would make your head spin, some of whom work less than 20 hours a week. How do I know? I worked in the industry for 18 years and made more $$ than the doctors I called on! http://timetorevoltamerica.blogspot.com

We would not even be having these debates if Americans stop their love affair with foods that are scientifically proven to cause diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. It is far cheaper in the long run to eat multiple portions of fruit and vegetables every day then going out to McDonalds or for Pizza. The medical and pharmaceutical industry has a vested interest in a sick populace. This is why they promote Lipitor for lowering cholesterol when reducing one's intake of animal products and process foods and increasing the intake of fruits and vegetables will do this with no problem. They don't make a profit off of someone who decides to be responsible and eat healthy. The bottom line is if Americans stopped their disease causing eating habits, our health industry would straighten out and health insurance and doctor's visits would be more affordable.

Somebody should be talking about the drugs freely flowing across our southern border. www.borderinvasionpics.com See videos of illegal aliens coming across the border in hordes - day and night.

I am not a proponent of unnecessary use of medical drugs. For ex antibiotics being used for viral infections (colds). I am all for the use of medicines that could be used to cure a disease instead of surgery, although I'm not against that as a final resort. And I do not collect any Medicaid, Medicare,... any government entitlement. I pay for my medicines with the help of my private insurance. And I like paying for my own private insurance! Because I know that most of my premiums will go to the business of insuring, not to some inefficient bureaucracy. If Mr Obama gets his way, guess who will be taking up the money slack if drug prices are renegotiated to prices lower than a profit level that is suitable to continue w/R&D? Me & those who are also paying for private insurance. Most of you have absolutely no clue on how many millions to billions of dollars it takes to get a drug to the market---& that only includes the scientific research & regulations imposed by govn'ts. I'm not even including the marketing expense. Do you think those who work for a pharmceutical company, like chemists, pharmacists, medical doctors, biostatisticians, nurses, programmers, lawyers, regulatory affairs officials, engineers... come cheap? I'm not even including the nonhuman assets needed ---such as the expensive scientific equipment. Do I think the companies are not w/out their faults? No way. But, think again before you bash the drug companies irrationally.

Socialised medicine has been a failure everywhere it has been tried. The people who keep trying to push it on us either don't care about people or want a large percentage of us to die from lack of medical care.

This kind of self serving advertising will be seen for what it is and probably convince more people to stop subsidizing this kind of lobbying to continue our system of corporate welfare. If we really just had a free market instead of giving the wealthy in this country special status we wouldn't have the problems we have now with our health care system, or lack of it rather. The American Medical Association, representing the highest paid professionals in the country, has killed almost every attempt at establishing a health care system and almost succeeded in killing Medicare, a watered down version of the Truman plan that they did succeed in killing in 1947. Large pharmaceutical companies are almost never the producers of new cutting edge drugs anymore because they are more worried about the next quarterly report to Wall Street. We should be starting a dozen research grant centers that emulate what Howard Hughes does and let the old manufacturers compete in the open market with Indian and other producers of fine pharmaceuticals. If they can't cut it then let them die.