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Blue_true

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10. One thing that can be done with Big Pharma and medical equipment makers,

Fri Mar 27, 2020, 07:46 PM

Mar 2020

is grant them 15 years of exclusivity AFTER final approval of their medicine or medical device or diagnostic equipment. If properly regulated, such an approach should reduce drug and medical device costs for consumers.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

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Where Sanders went wrong on MFA and why [View all] NCProgressive Mar 2020 OP

Excellent points. comradebillyboy Mar 2020 #1

Sound Points All, Sir The Magistrate Mar 2020 #2

Actually, agents and middlemen are a part of the capitalist system NCProgressive Mar 2020 #5

As You say, Sir, Profits May Flow Back In The Magistrate Mar 2020 #8

Point number one Turin_C3PO Mar 2020 #3

The problem is he never addressed actually reducing costs dansolo Mar 2020 #4

Bernie, I never understood why any healthcare proposal was framed as 'Medicare for All' jaxexpat Mar 2020 #6

It was a simplistic marketing ploy NCProgressive Mar 2020 #7

K&R betsuni Mar 2020 #9

One thing that can be done with Big Pharma and medical equipment makers, Blue_true Mar 2020 #10

All true, but he went "wrong" on MfA the moment he first Hortensis Mar 2020 #11

I totally agree. NCProgressive Mar 2020 #12

K and R oasis Mar 2020 #13