OT US drug company hikes price of everyday vitamin pills by 800%

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  1. stampedehero

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    Or take vitamins when you just piss them out.
     
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    I'm not answering that silly question. Wasn't it rhetorical anyway?
     
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    You guys do know it isn't free to discover, patent and produce a drug, right? If pharmaceuticals WEREN'T a for profit company looking to make as much money as possible, there wouldn't be any incentive to spend the billions in research to make new drugs and discover how they work.
     
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    Ha! Reminds me of the time I went to a Willie Nelson concert held at the Santa Cruz county Fair grounds. I had taken my Vit. B for the day when I visited the men's trough they had setup for mass of people. The guy next to me looked at the bright yellow stream and gasped, Damn man! You need more beer!
     
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    Since we are on the topic, i got charged $2000 for my daughter to have a small cut on her wrist glued shut in the ER. Thanks obamacare.

    Hell i got charge $800 for a 2 hour bloody nose i couldnt stop. I sat in the hallway and never saw a doctor. I even had my own tissue, i sat there for 2 hours until it stopped itself and i was discharged and handed a $2 bottle of afrin.

    Im just gonna web md from now on and mcgiver shit.
     
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    Yeah, just stuff a bunch of kleenex in your nose and chug a natty ice bro.
     
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    Oh I know! $1800 to get a few stitches in a grandson's lip not all that long ago. When their dad was about the same age it was around 10 to 20 bucks for this kind a work. Multiple reasons for this big difference, but none are good.
     
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    These pills cost nothing to produce per pill...the mark up is pure big pharma greed.....the same medicine cost a fraction at the neighborhood pharmacy in Taiwan and they make it on the spot....bottle of pills cost you less than five bucks in most cases...the mark up in the States is pure robbery. Their excuse is research costs...and it's a flimsy excuse...and if you eat properly and get some live enzymes in your diet you probably don't need cholesterol or blood meds...you can get a lot of those things from diet
     
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    I know that you don’t partake in marijuana, so I’m just gonna say it, a Willie concert seems a bit out of character.
     
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    You are right! I don't even like the odor of the stuff. But I do like Willie's music. The fog rolled in that day, just at dusk. Sort of put a blanket on the event. I mean heavy fog and mix with hemp smoke from 25ooo people! Heavy stuff!
     
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    Ive had bloody noses all my life but this one was gushing for 45min and i was like fuck it
     
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    They don't call it skunk for nothin'
     
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    That literally has nothing to do with Obamacare.
     
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    Nobody smokes hemp bro. Hemp doesn't get people high nor does it smell like Bud. Hemp is what saved your president when he jumped outta that plane in 1944.

    Hemp literally saved his life.
     
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    I acknowledge you as an expert in the field smoking dope or rope.

    I've smoked dope, chewed rope, danced, French romanced, fucked, farted, fought, shot the moon and drove big trucks. I've been to Janesville, Maine, Spain, Spokane, and Fort Wayne, seen three world fairs, been around the world twice, looked danger in the face, and seen goats fuck in the marketplace, but I ain't never seen wisdom like you get from dviss.
     
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    Get your mind right. I just know the truth and you'd rather listen to what the crooked politicians will tell you.

    Look up Harry J. Anslinger. That racist MF is the reason why it's illegal in the first place. Him and DuPont company.
     
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    You were in the service right? (I could be wrong here). All of the stitching in our uniforms is made from hemp. Hemp we IMPORT from Canada.

    Shouldn't we grow our own instead of wasting money buying it from them?
     
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    We again? Grow what you will. Carry on!
     
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    This is how STUPID your post is.

    WE = AMERICA....

    So I guess in your eyes I shouldn't say we in that instance. I completely understand why you've come to that conclusion.
     

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