>>>>>>Just plain stupid, and although technology can solve the problem, it could have been solved by requiring typed prescriptions (typed by nurse/clerical) and be signed by the doctor.
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>>>>>>3.2 Billion prescriptions annually, thats an amazing number!
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>>>>>And the drug companies just saw fit to raise their prices yet again. And well beyond the rate of inflation too!
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>>>>I am shocked, shocked!
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>>>Assuming sarcasm, I'd say this is a prime example of what's wrong in our society today.
>>>We just accept that corporations will do this kind of thing, no questions asked. We just accept that greed is the normal state of affairs.
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>>>I wonder what employee raises will be like in pharmaceutical companies this year?... And what they were like last year.
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>>>With all those BILLIONS of prescriptions written last year you'd think there was ample scope for profits without raising prices at all, let alone higher that inflation.
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>>Yes, I was being sarcastic. The reason we "accept" this kind of thing is we are powerless to prevent it. Congress could do so but they are so far in the pockets of Big Phrama that they can't even see daylight.
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>Man, you practically replied as I hit the send button < s >
>Right. Do you think the day will come (in our lifetime) that politicians will be "clean" of that stuff?

No.

The new Congress has come in with a laundry list of all the ways they're going to take money out of politics -- limits on corporate gifts, junkets, etc. I'll believe it when I see it. Money has lubricated the political system for so long I don't know that they can operate any other way.