[SunRescue] OT: CA: It's Our Turn (fair drug prices)

[Gil Young]

OS holy wars!

At 09:19 AM 4/9/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Okay, this is REALLY off-topic.  Lessee, what discussions should always
>be banned:
>
>1.  Editor wars
>2.  Religous debates of ANY kind
>3.  Politics
>
>Bill
>
>On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 10:12:41AM -0400, Ken Hansen wrote:
> > First off, this is *hardly* on-topic, but what is?
> > The 10% of Ugandians that are HIV positive need the drug no mater what
> > the price is (fair or unfair).
> > That they can not afford, and subsequently will not recieve the drug is
> > a bad thing.
> > The *evil* drug companies that invested *hundreds* of Millions of 
> dollars in
> > developing these drugs deserve to be recompensed for their risk and 
> efforts.
> > You do understand the cost of the medicine exceed the fractional penny it
> > costs to put the compund in tablet form, right? I assumed you did.
> > You are also aware that several drug companies have decided to provide
> >  heavily subsidised AIDS treatments to Africa and other parts of the
> > world devastated by AIDS?
> > Ken
>
>--
>Bill Bradford
>mrbill at mrbill.net
>Austin, TX
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Gil Young
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