Big Pharma Trips Over the Maxed-out American Consumer

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4. Yep look at big pharma's profits.

It takes millions of dollars and years to take a compound through all the steps the FDA requires before it is approved and marketed as a drug. The FDA, in spite of it's failures, is there to protect human beings from really bad stuff that could kill them (as we saw before the Food and Drug Act became law). This is a good thing, and it costs money.

However - as you point out - the cost of protecting our well-being IS passed on to us while the corps producing the drugs pocket enormous sums of money from their sales.

There is no regulation on drug prices in the US. If a person needs a drug, big pharma knows that person will eat cat food to afford it, or worse - go without altogether. They simply don't care.

This needs to change - drug prices need to be regulated. Bernie will do this, Hillary will not.