Reply #7: Actually, we have a program set up by the government to research

[mbperrin]

drugs - virtually 100% of all basic research done on drugs is done and paid for by the government.(Such as the HIV root of AIDS). The industry takes this vital basic research and tweaks it into marketable drugs. They are then free to deduct all of that from taxes,which pushes the costs back to us. We (the taxpayer-suckers) pay for all of it and get a tiny royalty back that never pays back the costs.

This is why the drug makers OWE it to us to make less-profitable drugs. (Or maybe they'd like to pay for all their own research in the future.) (Hey, Hal, how's that licorice-flavored aspirin comin'?)