09/01/04 07:49 - ID#36167

Metalpeter...

Yes it is true that insurance companies do pick up a lot of the cost sometimes. I am not complaining about copays. Copays are sooooo cheap compared to the actual cash price of the medication it is almost unbelievable. The problem is, the insurance companies, in order to stay in business, need to raise their rates charged to the consumer. But don't forget about the occasional senior citizen with no coverage who desperately needs a course of antibiotics but can't afford 200 dollars for ten pills. (yes you read that right) That specific antibiotic is manufacutured by ortho-mcneil, a drug company that must spend millions of dollars on television advertising for birth control alone. Which brings me to another point. In my opinion doctors are educated enough so that they give patients what they see fit; there is no need for the average consumer to be sold on a certain brand of medication so they can go into their doctor and demand zoloft or demand paxil and threaten to leave if they don't get it (it happens). I see television commercials for medication as a huge waste of money and more importantly, ethical irresponsibility on the part of the drug manufacturers. I am not advocating destruction of these companies, we DO need them for research, we don't need their excessive spending.

thesimeon

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09/01/04 11:26 - ID#36166

poor drug companies

I just saw a commercial on tv by glaxo smith cline, one of the worlds leading drug companies, on how they spend almost a billion dollars on a single drug's research, as if they were trying to justify the exorbidant drug costs that they charge to the consumer. Yes, research and development is expensive, and I am all for it if it is going to help people with terrible diseases. The problem is, they certainly don't do anything to help lower costs. Instead they pay the slime of the pharmacy world, drug representatives, to go to doctors and pharmacies and try to convince them to use their product over another and in many cases, use their product over a much cheaper generic product. They have television ads, magazine ads, not to mention all the useless office supply crap they have made up with the drug name on them. Screw that commercial for trying to make us feel bad for them.

thesimeon

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08/18/04 10:14 - ID#36165

Whoa

[c][size=xxl]Shop 'till ya drop![/size][/c]

Seriously

I have dropped

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08/17/04 12:33 - ID#36164

Just in case

you needed a reminder about how funny will ferril is

thesimeon

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07/29/04 11:21 - ID#36163

hello? idiots...(ahem john kerry)

freedom and equality are not the same thing, they are opposites goddamnit. and it is obvious that the person that uses these two words as if we can have both has no idea what the meaning of either is. to be free is to be unequal. to be free is to be unsafe. to be equal is to be not free. choose which fucking one you want.

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07/29/04 10:30 - ID#36162

we all

are having such a great time at the john kerry love fest that is the DNC and during our festivities, do we just choose to forget that he voted for the patriot act? or do we not care because he is running against bush?

thesimeon

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07/27/04 12:26 - ID#36161

Congratulations

ajay...I am happy for you

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07/17/04 06:53 - ID#36160

Sorry,

thank you ajay, i did forget to mention that the charges have been dropped. that is what made me write about it today actually. i found out originally from a message board maidencateyes, people were discussing it with appropriate rage

thesimeon

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07/17/04 11:36 - ID#36159

In case youre not entirely

sure how fucked up our military is, all you need to do is read about a cowardice charge which the army recently brought up against one of its soldiers. This 5 year veteran is killing them damn iraqis and one day, sees the body of an iraqi, torn in half by US gunfire. this causes him to 'lose it' and seek counseling. well, aparently his comanders thought he was too much of a 'coward' and send him home to face a court martial on cowardice charges.

but wait folks, it gets better. it is entirely possible, say doctors, that this 'cowardice' is caused by mental instability which itself was caused by a reaction to a drug the army administered him.

the problem with todays smart guns and smart bombs and smart humvees and smart everything is that humans don't fully see the effects of what is going on in the battlefield. how can you fully realize what you are doing to a human being when you are looking at them on a computer screen, through night vision from 200 metres away? i bet if half of those soldiers saw what damage they were doing they would all need to be brought up on cowardice charges.

humans are not supposed to be stone cold in the face of murder.

fuck you army

thesimeon

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07/13/04 09:21 - ID#36158

We needn't be

affraid of corporations, we are the boss of them, not the other way around. trying to avoid corporations in today's world is like trying to live without clothes, sure you could do it, but what fun would that be? especially in the cold of buffalo. instead we just need to pull together and not feel apathy or fear toward them. don't be affraid to call them. they will make you talk to a computer, but screw that, DONT, always wait for a representative. if you don't like what they don't have to say, hang up and boycott their ass. **tell them you will boycott them before you hang up**

don't like the interest rate on your credit card? call them and tell them to lower it, and if they don't, tell them to cancel your card and pay of your balance if you can.

bank charging you overdraft fees? tell them not to do that, that you think its dirty and sneaky. 99% of the time those slimy bank execs are scared enough of losing your business that they will almost pee their pants. even if you don't have a lot of money, a closed account never reflects good and that = pants peeing time. that goes for late fees on credit cards too.

assert yourself to somewhat respectful corporations (they are out there), boycott evil shitty ones (ahem coke, pepsi, warren buffet & bershire hathaway) and life will go just a little bit easier

thesimeon

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