Re: Why are elliptical trainers so expensive?

    Fact is most drugs, over 99.99% are discovered or engineered by
universities and /or public research grants and not drug companies.
    Drug companies buy the patent from the university or research group and
use millions and millions of dollars on advertising, wining and dining DR's
and getting the drugs past the FDA and pass the cost of all that on to you
plus a huge profit of course. Just look at the differences in price between
Canada and the US, the main factor being in Canada they can only mark
something up so much where in the US the ceiling is the limit.

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"B. Peg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > snip...
> > I hate paying for expensive drugs myself, but the reality is that drug
> > development is very expensive and someone has to pay for it or there
will
> be
> > none. Today, that someone is us. Reality really sucks sometimes.
>
> Yes, but reality is that many drugs are first made and tested in foreign
> countries and later brought into the U.S. (licensed) and sold for a higher
> price due to blank checks issued by the insurance companies.  Your
argument
> is a ploy used by U.S. drug companies to maintain high prices.  Oddly, you
> can by the same drugs from foreign countries at far less than sold for in
> the U.S. often at one-fifth the cost.
>
> B~
>
>