Merck & Co. Inc. (MRK)

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    william
    May 19 10:08 PM
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    Cramer: How An Obama Win Would Impact Healthcare Stocks [view article]
    AMERICA IS PLAIN STUPID! VIDEO GAMES, ILLEGALS DUMBING US DOWN, POOR SCHOOLING, POOR PARENTING, LITTLE READING, THE WORD "LIKE" & "YOU KNOW" AND "UM", FAT AND LAZY AND POOR FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY ALL YIELD TO THE METALITY OF AN OBAMA CANDIDATE- A CANDIDATE OF CHANGE--A HOLLOWMAN THAT RESEMBLES AMERICA TODAY- OUR SOUL IS BEING STRIPPED OUT OF US AND GIVEN TO THE ARAB FOR THEIR STINKING OIL-- CANNOT DRILL, NO NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS, NO COAL, NO OIL SHALE, NO TAR SANDS--JUST COMPLAINING. AMERICA YOU DESERVE OBAMA -FOOLISH AMERICA Reply
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    JohnnyComeLa
    tely
    May 19 03:23 PM
    Cramer: How An Obama Win Would Impact Healthcare Stocks [view article]
    The problem that even Obama is not worried about is the Health Insurance industry. It is complete overhead. Put all the controls on that, or better yet, abolish it and start over. Reply
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    Froggie
    May 19 01:05 PM
    Industries to Avoid, Industries to Buy [view article]
    After reading the first few comments, I would like to suggest that some of the commentators read book "The Squandering of America" by Robert Kuttner. "Free trade" in theory is unlike "free trade" in practice. Reply
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    Uneasyrider
    May 17 04:02 PM
    Industries to Avoid, Industries to Buy [view article]
    If you believe that repeal of the gas tax or more government regulation will bring the price of gas down,you need a lesson in economics.Only a decrease in demand or an increase in refining capacity will bring the price down.Refiners have been unwilling to make the capital expenditure due to the time and cost of building a new refinery without a guarantee that demand will remain high. Reply
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    StockSpy
    May 16 08:14 AM
    Cramer, the TIN Man - Cramer's Lightning Round (5/15/08) [view article]
    Yep... whew! Cramer just escaped with his life on that FMCN sell. You hate to see those fantastic fundmentals, massive potential in an expanding Chinese consumer market, and recently discounted price hanging over your head. Yep, that'll kill you in the stock market every time. Reply
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    Richard
    Schweitzer
    May 15 12:58 PM
    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    There is more to the "Empire State" picture and that is relocation. NY is not a good state to be in; and, as people said of Ark. during the depression, "It's a good state to be FROM." Reply
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    wsigler
    May 15 12:46 PM
    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    "Expect Basic Materials IYM to pull back. Higher costs for Basic Materials companies due to energy price spike matched with inability to raise prices in a near-recessionary environment. "

    Were that true, we'd not have to worry about inflation, now would we...     Reply
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    Middle
    May 15 12:12 PM
    Stay Clear of Traditional Asset Classes [view article]
    Mike - I love it. Apparently I really got under your collar with my post. And, now I realize that you are just another pie-in-the-sky socialist.

    Frst, if I may be so bold - Physicians dont kill people. Physicians sometimes fail to pull off a miracle and save a life - and then its called murder. What the heck kind of country do you think this is? My family had a medical issue, and we resorted to the online community for support, we realized that everybody in "socialized medicine" nations were dying to get into the US for medical care. Yes, HMOs are nasty organizations filled with wasted overhead, I am with you. But government health care will be HMO squared.

    Listen, there are dozens of other socialist nations out there. There is only one superpower non-socialist nation left. Us people who dont like socialism are running out of choices on where to live. Kindly take you and your commie thoughts to one of those many other countries and leave mine alone. I dont tell commies how to live their lives, and I dont appreciate commies that my health care system is out to kill people.     Reply
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    Robt1947
    May 15 11:06 AM
    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    stockczar, i wish i had an adviser on the ball like you seem to be...keep the info coming..cheers Reply
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    stockczar
    May 15 10:53 AM
    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    US manufacturing economy stalling per today's news. "Manufacturing activity in the New York area deteriorated slightly in May, the New York Federal Reserve Bank said Thursday. The bank's Empire State Manufacturing index fell to negative 3.2 in May from 0.6 in April. This is the third month in the last four that the index has been negative. Readings below zero indicate contraction. The report was weaker than expected. Economists were expecting to be essentially flat in April. "

    Expect Basic Materials IYM to pull back. Higher costs for Basic Materials companies due to energy price spike matched with inability to raise prices in a near-recessionary environment.     Reply
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    Ketan Desai
    May 15 09:46 AM
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    Three Game-Changers For Big Pharma [view article]
    The author is incorrect in stating that Amgen will have to conduct a fracture study (instead of simply relying on BMD) for Denosumab due to the Vytorin. Fracture studies are the standard in phase III osteoporosis studies. Look at the FDA guidance document:

    www.fda.gov/CDER/GUIDA...

    Also, look at Novartis' Reclast that also had fracture in its studies:

    www.bio-medicine.org/m.../

    Finally, Denosumab is not a me-too drug. It is an antibody - not a bisphosphonate.     Reply
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    Mike Stathis
    May 15 01:45 AM
    Stay Clear of Traditional Asset Classes [view article]
    Wrong Middle. Healthcare is NOT going up due to boomer demographics. Boomers have not even turned 65 yet. Boomer demographics over the next 20 years WILL make the problems worse, namely due to the crisis in chronic disease management, which already constitutes over 70% of all healthcare expenses. But right now the costs are due to the excessive profiteering by the healthcare mafia – HMOs, drug companies, device makers, etc. This is a fact.

    How is it that the U.S. spends 18% of GDP on healthcare and has the highest rate of medical errors, 50 million without coverage, nearly 1 million medically-related bankruptcies each year, and a ranking of 37th by the WHO – yet, most of the rest of the world has healthcare expenditures ranging from 6-8% of GDP, with virtually no fraud, less waste, much fewer medical errors, and much better rankings? Answer: a healthcare "free-for-all&quo... among the providers who focus on profits and often sacrafice quality care.

    In fact, according to studies from John’s Hopkins (Dr. Starfield--google it), due to medical errors, physicians are now the #3 cause of death in America.


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    Middle
    May 14 01:31 PM
    Stay Clear of Traditional Asset Classes [view article]
    Mike -

    Healthcare is going up because there are more older people, and less working people, and we all want to live longer. If we, as a society, choose to accept death when nature says its time, and if we start having larger families again, then our health care costs would shrink.

    I bet you would chose to fight cancer if you had it, and I bet you dont have many kids. So you are part of the problem. Stop calling the kettle black.     Reply
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    Genentech
    fan
    May 14 11:11 AM
    Former Merck CEO Prods Industry on Drug Pricing [view article]
    Dr. Vagelos points the finger at Genentech for charging "unsustainable&qu... prices for a cancer drug that is utilized by mere thousands of patients rather than the millions of patients Merck's statin drug is sold to. As a result, Merck only has to charge each patient several hundred dollars a month to earn 2-3 times the revenue that Genentech earns from Avastin. Perhaps Dr. Vagelos would have only drug companies in business that research and discover only "mainstream" drugs for the masses (that mediate pain but also cause heart attacks) and not the lifesaving drugs like Herceptin for breast cancer that has saved thousand of women's lives. Dr. Vagelos conveniently forgot to point out that Merck has reaped tens of billions more in revenue from the same system that he says can't sustain the cost of Avastin. Reply
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    User 36747
    May 14 06:26 AM
    Industries to Avoid, Industries to Buy [view article]
    Interesting view point. One question regarding the notion that price controls can help to solve the health care situtation in the U.S. "What happens to the supply of doctors, drugs, etc. when price controls (i.e., price caps) are implemented?" Let me help you, the supply will fall and with it, access to health care. And just so you know, there will be a "honeymoon" period when price controls are in and supply is ample. But it takes 10-20 years for new drugs and 7-12 years for a M.D. to enter the system. What happens when you're middle-aged and the supply of docs/drugs is down by half? Oops! Reply
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