xgenehawk

Well, part of the reason that drugs are so much more expensive in this country is that a lot of other countries actually have price controls, whereas here drug companies are pretty much allowed to charge what they want. But a lot of it has to do with the marketing practices of the pharms. It used to be the case that drug companies weren't allowed to advertise on television (possibly also radio and print ads?), and since the decision to prescribe a drug rests solely with the doctor it would make sense if they went back to this practice - but if they did, they wouldn't have patients browbeating their doctors as much to prescribe drugs that they might not need, which is why the drug companies would strongly oppose this. Of course, they spend loads of money pushing their drugs to doctors as well, not to mention paying off politicians. Damn, I hate the drug companies...

try having a 2 and a half year old dude....waking up after 7 seems like a far off memory from another lifetime.