Holy broken english, that line should have read: Or will the Republican non 1%er's realize their party only uses them for votes while solely catering to the rich, thus bringing about a Republican Civil War:
The doc in that thread is gonna get shot by a Whitey if he doesn't let up. Meanwhile, Prescription drug prices rising despite Trump pressure on Big Pharma Among the AP's findings: There were fewer price increases this year from January through July than in comparable prior-year periods, but companies still hiked prices far more often than they cut them. This year through the end of July, there were 4,412 brand-name drug price increases and 46 price cuts. To put it another way: For every price decrease over those seven months, there were 96 price hikes. In June and July, right after Trump's price cut prediction, there were 395 price increases and 24 decreases. The two dozen cuts were up from the 15 decreases in those same two months last year, but increases still outpaced decreases by a ratio of 16.5-to-1. The median price increase, meaning half were higher and half lower, was 5.2 percent in June and July of 2018, down from 8 percent in that period in 2017. The median price cut this June and July was 11 percent, much smaller than in comparable periods in prior years. The AP also asked 24 large drug companies this summer if they planned to cut drug prices. None said they did, although some didn't answer. Drugmakers typically say they need to keep raising prices of existing drugs to pay for costly, lengthy research to develop new medicines, though industry critics dispute that. Dr. Peter Bach, who heads the Center for Health Policy and Outcomes at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, said the AP's analysis shows there's been no big move to decrease prices. "We have a broken pricing system," he said. ---------- ---------- #HabitualLyingCausesOrangeSkin