Whoooooaaaaaaa

[Lady's Human]

Chemo drugs and antivenom meds all took someone money and time to develop. For the time the patents hold, the people who developed the drugs deserve to be compensated. After that, they are open for generics to produce.

I wouldn't WANT mr "average Joe's" antivenom or chemo drugs, thank you.

What are you, wom, a darned communist, not wanting the drug co's to have their shot at a fair profit?

[lizbud]

Chemo drugs and antivenom meds all took someone money and time to develop. For the time the patents hold, the people who developed the drugs deserve to be compensated. After that, they are open for generics to produce.

I wouldn't WANT mr "average Joe's" antivenom or chemo drugs, thank you.

What are you, wom, a damned communist, not wanting the drug co's to have their shot at a fair profit?

Did you even listen to the film? These companies bought up the med
supplies to make them scarce in the market, then mark up the prices
some 650%. They didn't make the drugs, they just bought up the
available supply in order to sell again at marked up prices. Nothing "fair"
about it.

[happylabs]

Doesn't surprise me one bit. The drug companies are greedy. I don't trust them at all. I wish I could use only natural vitamins and herbs and not need any synthetic meds. I could probably do it if I would eat better and exercise more. Should be my New Year's resolution but I should start now.

As far as the comment about Wom being a communist. Very inappropriate. You need to retract that one.

[Lady's Human]

As far as the comment about Wom being a communist. Very inappropriate. You need to retract that one.

When hell freezes over.

It's perfectly legitimate when directed at me, it's perfectly legitimate when tossed at others as well.

Don't like it? Cry me a river.

[Karen]

Everybody should stop with the name-calling, folks!

[happylabs]

Everybody should stop with the name-calling, folks!

Agreed! This is a family friendly site for people who share the love of our pets. It is supposed to be a place, I believe, that we can come to and feel good about something.

[sparks19]

I don't think its been that kind of place for quite a while

[wombat2u2004]

As far as the comment about Wom being a communist. Very inappropriate. You need to retract that one.

Not really. I've been called all kinds of things in my life, it's just wind.

[wombat2u2004]

Chemo drugs and antivenom meds all took someone money and time to develop. For the time the patents hold, the people who developed the drugs deserve to be compensated. After that, they are open for generics to produce.

I wouldn't WANT mr "average Joe's" antivenom or chemo drugs, thank you.

What are you, wom, a darned communist, not wanting the drug co's to have their shot at a fair profit?

So you're saying.......this is not fraud ???

[Lady's Human]

So you're saying.......this is not fraud ???

No more so than certain business practices you find perfectly legitimate. It all depends on who's ox is being gored..........

[wombat2u2004]

No more so than certain business practices you find perfectly legitimate. It all depends on who's ox is being gored..........

Perfectly legitimate ?? The law says it IS.
You want fraud and corruption ?? Go check out the unions. I'm sure you will find lots of reading there.

[Lady's Human]

You as much as admitted to overbilling insurance corporations, and then brushed over it by deflection, stating that we shouldn't be concerned about it, you're in Australia, it's not going to affect us in the states......

Got news for you. The biggest insurer in Australia for general, business and property insurance is the Australian subsidiary to AIG. You might have seen them in the news, the US spent more than $100 Billion bailing the parent company out.

[smokey the elder]

The President has created an executive order to prevent the "grey marketeers" from profiteering off the scarce drugs. I'm not sure how enforceable this is.

I don't want to start a flame war about the drug companies, but people's ignorance about the drug discovery and development process is truly disturbing.

[wombat2u2004]

You as much as admitted to overbilling insurance corporations, and then brushed over it by deflection, stating that we shouldn't be concerned about it, you're in Australia, it's not going to affect us in the states......

Got news for you. The biggest insurer in Australia for general, business and property insurance is the Australian subsidiary to AIG. You might have seen them in the news, the US spent more than $100 Billion bailing the parent company out.

That's not news to me. Australian insurance companies have been underwritten by US companies since the beginning of time. Do you think for a moment that I don't know my OWN business ??? Believe me LH, in MY business I would leave you FAR FAR behind.
I as much admitted overbilling ??? No no no...I ADMITTED overbilling, "as much" doesn't even come into it.
And I admit yet again that I overbilled the insurance companies. Three times more, four times more, five times more....thousands and thousands of dollars I have milked out of them. And do you know what ??? Not once did I deal with an insurance broker behind closed doors so that he would get a share of the action. You think that does'nt go on ???? It goes on ALL of the time. Yeah, the insurance reps rip their own companies off. And all of the while the insurance companies are ripping us off, every single step of the way. And the scumbags even manage to have payment of their huge premiums legislated. Yep, so we don't have a choice but to pay. And the premiums are ALL the same over the spread of insurers, who by the way are supposed to be competitive....go figure.
My pricing structure in my business made allowances for those of us who are not so fortunate as multi million dollar corporations. I had no fixed rate. People paid according to my estimation of their capacity. So old mate, a lot of blue collared workers benefited greatly from my building expertise and my generosity..... a lot more than they would even get from your so called honest corporations.

So my dear friend, shove all of that in your pipe and smoke it. And the next time you, including your other two know it all mates accuse ME of fraud, I will send it right back at ya three fold.

[Lady's Human]

Ah yes, the sainted small business fraudster complaining about union tactics......

Got news for ya, *******, not all unions are corrupt, but you certainly seem to know corruption from a far more personal standpoint than anyone else on the board.

As the saying goes, it takes one to know one.