He has a cognitive issue making connections.

I invest in Pharmaceutical companies for a living.
So yes I know what I am talking about.
I own and have owned MRK,JNJ,PFE,MYL and many smaller pharmaceuticals.
I have no reason to lie or misrepresent anything.
I make money based on being objective, not emotional.
What I mean by subsidizing is this.
Japan controls the cost of drugs in their country. They just negotiated a price with BMY for OPDIVO.
Same with the EU. Japans cost is half what we pay here. The EU is a little better than here but not much.
These drugs get there later so they're not on the bleeding edge. People died waiting on OPDIVO in EU and Japan.
MRK now has Keytruda and will go through the same thing.
Our government does not set prices here so we pay more.
That is how we "subsidize other countries.
Now lets look at what happens when you set the prices here.
BMY will take a hit somewhere.
1) Employee pay.
2) Profits....If you look at how long it took OPDIVO to come to market and the cost 1 billion. That company has to recover the cost or go out of business.
3) New development of drugs.(Growth)
Something has to give.
Do you want to sacrifice the future to attempt to lower the cost today? Fewer developers developing new drugs.
Keep in mind that dividend payments come out of profits.
Profits are taxed at the corporate level and then some portion distributed to it's shareholder and then taxed again.
It is commonly known in the business world about what is called the "Double Taxation" of dividend payments.
In the end today BMY makes no more profit than say Hormel Foods.(Drawing equivalence from there Market Capitalization(Price of stock times it's number of shares outstanding)

When Clinton got in office he did to MRK what Trump did to all the drug companies. Both of them drove down the stock market prices based on what they said.
Clintons attacking MRK when he got in office caused a downturn in MRK's Market Cap(Stock Price) for several years.

This is the fundamental reason why no President has attempted to control prices.
Control of prices has been a line that no Democratic president has yet to cross here.

and then comes Bernie Sanders..........The socialist.

I assure you Price fixing won't work. Something will have to give.....
The easy solution is to deregulate to allow drugs not to cost so much by allowing them to come to market quicker.
You will actually k**l less people by doing this. The whole process speeds up.
I am only talking deregulation in the government sense.

Right now Trials are regulated by law.
If I had cancer and I wanted to risk my life with a drug for a chance at life I can't.
I should be able to voluntarily choose to be a test case if I want.
The real delay in drug approvals comes by waiting for the FDA to review and approve.....

Although this is scary for many we have a history to show why drugs are high.
When deregulation was less drugs came to market much faster.
I could give a history of thalidomide but won't. It wasn't introduce here but in England where ironically they had and FDA type structure.
The case of Deregulation in almost every Industry is very strong.

Both Canada, The EU and Japan as well as ever other country on earth are beneficiaries of our tax dollars to support our FDA.
We do the work(pay the taxes) they get the benefit.

Because we Americans Subsidize them. We pay more so they can pay less.
BMY is going to make there spread no matter what you do.
The only way to drive down prices effectively is to deregulate.
You bring drugs to market quicker and you also lower the cost.
Right now we are k*****g people by making them wait 12 years to get a drug....

Ellsworth Toohey,
The epitome of the quintessential collectivist.

You didn't...That's just how his mind works.
He goes off....way off.....
Thank you for picking up the therapy session.
Time for me to rest for a while.

Maybe you just should deregulate such that it doesn't take 12 years and three hundred million dollars to bring a new drug to market.
That's right.....Look it up......
So you pass laws that drives the cost up and pass more laws to correct the first laws.....
Hmmmmmm.
You better watch out. Those drug companies pay big taxes......Especially the big ones.
Less profit....Less taxes.....
You might want to compare the five year profits from Bristol Myer to say someone Like Kroger......
You might change your mind....

Is there anyone else here that can take care of KKKENANS therapy session now?
Maybe he has had enough of Exposure therapy for tonight.
He needs to rest......

Oh yea I left one out.
Short term memory loss.

He only selectively reads....
Then he wacks out with the pen.
Issues you know.....
Internal conflict.
Borderline Personality Disorder.

Well I wasn't(I v**ed for Johnson) but you helped drive me to the otherside.
Everytime you write my side wins......
Please keep writing.
Thank you too.....

Define Fun! LOL

LOL.
Everytime I see Arts post I keep thinking of Sun Tsu.
Then Tsu makes me think of Attila.
I'm stopping there for now.......
It must be Freudian.

Well that was an intelligent response.
Two of the brightest IBM employees I knew.
No worries they got jobs, instantly.
Citi gave them no reason for termination.
IP told everyone they were outsourcing to India and had to find new jobs.
Everyone........
I told you zero "Income" tax would not work now.
It's amazing it worked for the first 150 years of our country.
I'm glad you think I'm stupid....I'm in good company.
Donald Trump is stupid too. He just cleaned the clock of 8 other republicans and the Democratic Queen.
Thank you......

Art wrote'''''
The media could try to turn his supporters against him. The sk**led media should copy Trumpian strategies. Alternative Facts, vague references to sources, and emotional pleas need to be emphasized. The LSM needs to appeal to the fears, and suspicions of his supporters to gain their support. Once that is successful, perhaps an avalanche of action could begin, to remove him from office. I suppose. lol

Reverse that....
I thought Trump used the Media strategies of Alternate Facts, vague reference and emotional pleas"
Which came first the Chicken or the Egg?

Trump seems to be using the tactics of Attila the Hun and Sun Tzu.
Very effective in war and politics(apparently).

To win.....Examine your premise.
"If you know yourself and you do not know your enemy you will lose."
"If you know your enemy and you do not know yourself you will lose"
Paraphrased from Sun Tzu the Art of War.

I think many are to busy looking at the ocean in front of them and never look around to know there is a forest fire at their back.
The people who are burned alive... they will never know.