08-11-2008, 07:26 AM
All true. There is another interesting fact - that the Big Pharm companies, like the Big MIC Companies get grants [huge] and tax breaks and free use of Govt. Research Centers [CDC etc.]. The Capitalist Fat-Cats actually have a weird varient of 'socialism' only for themselves - they just don't want it for anyone else. Add to all this the out-of-control advertising/PR of drugs on TV, radio, print-media, via doctors [paid to promote certain drugs] under the last few administrations. Big anything in the Corporate world is now out of control - but in a Corporatocracy, who would expect otherwise.