Obamacare..a Social Justice nightmare for the whole world

Ahem, just to the north of the US there's a country called Canada. One of the world leaders in Pharma research and development. Across the Atlantic are countries named Germany and France, also world leaders in Pharma. All three countries have universal health care. This is another example of people reading an article and not even bothering to verify that it is true. If you bothered to research the claims of the article at all you would discover that in fact European Pharma companies are actually the world leader in drug research and development. You can see this for yourself here. I keep repeating this over and over, simply accepting something presented as news is a recipe for ignorance as surely as knowing nothing at all.

Hey, but at least the Democrats get redistribution of wealth, increased taxes on some of the most productive people in this country, the wealthy, and they get another social program/handout that will help bring them more votes!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pharmaceutical_companies

Wow, I guess the US DOES dominate drug sales and research. Screw your efficiency report.6 of the top 12 firms are US.

We dont care how you idiots lie, Socialism has FAILED OVER and OVER. You cant polish a turd. We will defeat you in November.

I despise socialist,

I gotta love it when people just feed me the ammunition themselves. Socialism, and I don't consider myself a socialist, has not failed. You are more than likely referring to COMMUNISM, which has failed and always will fail. You might want to look up the difference between the two.

Now as for your assertion that 6 of the 12 biggest firms are American, that was not even the point. If you scroll up and look at the headline of this seed you will see that it implies that health-care reform will endanger drug development. I correctly pointed out that this is false since European firms outperform US companies in bringing to market new drugs and that those same companies are based in countries with universal health care. To quote the report I linked to:

The U.S. share of approved new drugs did increase in the decade from 1993 to 2003, as compared to the previous decade from 1982 to 1992, but that simply reflected the fact that the pharmaceutical industry poured more of its research dollars into American labs, says study author Donald Light, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and the Lokey visiting professor at Stanford. Over both decades, the U.S. share of approved new drugs lagged behind its share of research funding.

On a dollar-for-dollar basis, Europe was more productive in discovering new drugs than the U.S. was, and the European productivity advantage was greater in the period from 1993 to 2003 than it had been in the period from 1982 to 1992. Japan outstripped both Europe and the United States in pharmaceutical research productivity over these twenty years.

So try to keep up in the future before spouting off.

P.S.: Your nickname should read I despise Socialism.What it says now is barely english which I'm assuming is your alleged first language. Oh and polish your own turds mine get flushed.