Furd Turgeson

More on 'Big Pharma Maintains Illusion of Innovation' (Response to Ken Johnson)

"If the pharmaceutical industry is as caring as they profess to be, why do they institute price increases every year for drugs whose development and manufacturing infrastructure costs have been fully amortized years ago?"

To hire, make payroll, and offer benefits to employees, market the products they took through development which costs into the hundreds of millions (why is this such an issue for some of you? companies can't promote products they develop? Is this russia, chump?), combat inflation and the loss of value of money over time (duh), research and develop new products, and run clinical trials of available drugs on the market and those in the clinic trying to make it to the market. Do you think there is a lipitor tree out there that produces pills from hydrogen and oxygen?