Comments on: Prizes Shouldn’t Replace Patents: Reader Poll http://www.pharmalot.com/2007/10/prizes-shouldnt-replace-patents-reader-poll/ News, Comment and Conversation Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:06:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: TODD http://www.pharmalot.com/2007/10/prizes-shouldnt-replace-patents-reader-poll/#comment-23479 TODD Sat, 27 Oct 2007 14:11:56 +0000 http://www.pharmalot.com/2007/10/prizes-shouldnt-replace-patents-reader-poll/#comment-23479 Come on, either way it doesn't matter as there is 0 chance of anything dramatic such as this happening. There is a better chance Haliburton goes entirely green and tries to power Iraq with wind and sun energy. Go ahead and complain about prices, never realizing you could actually offset that by investing in pharma companies. Some complain that gas is expensive, well my energy stocks have gone thru the roof so it seems to be a wash for me. Good thing there are absolutely no issues with generics, right? Especially with new breakthrough meds, I am very happy with an orange book definition of 80-125% bioavailability. I know, you don't understand that last statement which is the very reason they don't ask you. So go ahead, use your head and use the power of capitalism to even things out for you. BTW - pharma still accounts for about 10% of the $2 trillion spent on health, I am just guessing there are bigger fish out there. Seen any multimillion dollar beautiful hospitals in depressed areas of the country? But, congress was just about to pass this and then they saw this poll and veto'd it. So close....... Come on, either way it doesn’t matter as there is 0 chance of anything dramatic such as this happening. There is a better chance Haliburton goes entirely green and tries to power Iraq with wind and sun energy. Go ahead and complain about prices, never realizing you could actually offset that by investing in pharma companies. Some complain that gas is expensive, well my energy stocks have gone thru the roof so it seems to be a wash for me.

Good thing there are absolutely no issues with generics, right? Especially with new breakthrough meds, I am very happy with an orange book definition of 80-125% bioavailability. I know, you don’t understand that last statement which is the very reason they don’t ask you.

So go ahead, use your head and use the power of capitalism to even things out for you. BTW - pharma still accounts for about 10% of the $2 trillion spent on health, I am just guessing there are bigger fish out there. Seen any multimillion dollar beautiful hospitals in depressed areas of the country?

But, congress was just about to pass this and then they saw this poll and veto’d it. So close…….

]]> By: Someone http://www.pharmalot.com/2007/10/prizes-shouldnt-replace-patents-reader-poll/#comment-23435 Someone Sat, 27 Oct 2007 03:16:53 +0000 http://www.pharmalot.com/2007/10/prizes-shouldnt-replace-patents-reader-poll/#comment-23435 It would have been a good idea to capture some of the demographics of the voting public on this one. Just guessing, but I think it might have been mostly pharmaceutical people and probably very few actual consumers. The arguments agents prizes for inventors as a way to thwart monopolies thereby helping to create more competitive competition and therefore better pricing were a touch on the "red herring" side. The argument about hardly recouping ROI on drugs was a nice touch, I am still blowing my nose and crying over the tragedy of it all - please give us a break... Pharma's is notorious for fattening themselves up so they can lay off and get everyone nervous and jumpy, hmm, I wonder if there is a pill for this... Anyway, I can only see good things - lower drug costs, savings for the public. Not to mention better competition to generate and stimulate truly innovative advances in drugs and treatment therapies. Hope this idea picks up some traction... It would have been a good idea to capture some of the demographics of the voting public on this one.

Just guessing, but I think it might have been mostly pharmaceutical people and probably very few actual consumers.

The arguments agents prizes for inventors as a way to thwart monopolies thereby helping to create more competitive competition and therefore better pricing were a touch on the “red herring” side. The argument about hardly recouping ROI on drugs was a nice touch, I am still blowing my nose and crying over the tragedy of it all - please give us a break…

Pharma’s is notorious for fattening themselves up so they can lay off and get everyone nervous and jumpy, hmm, I wonder if there is a pill for this…

Anyway, I can only see good things - lower drug costs, savings for the public. Not to mention better competition to generate and stimulate truly innovative advances in drugs and treatment therapies.

Hope this idea picks up some traction…

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