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WingDinger

(3,690 posts) Thu Feb 2, 2012, 12:03 AM Feb 2012

Rick Santorum Tells Sick Kid Market Should Should Set Drug Prices /////Are they this stupid? [View all]

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http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/rick-santorum-tells-sick-kid-market-set-drug-004745384--abc-news.html

Santorum, himself the father of a child with a rare genetic disorder, compared buying drugs to buying an iPad, and said demand would determine the cost of medical therapies.

"People have no problem paying $900 for an iPad," Santorum said, "but paying $900 for a drug they have a problem with - it keeps you alive. Why? Because you've been conditioned to think health care is something you can get without having to pay for it."

The mother said the boy was on the drug Abilify, used to treat schizophrenia, and that, on paper, its costs would exceed $1 million each year.

Santorum said drugs take years to develop and cost millions of dollars to produce, and manufacturers need to turn a profit or they would stop developing new drugs.
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What did we ever do so good to deserve these fools stupid gaffes?

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Rick Santorum Tells Sick Kid Market Should Should Set Drug Prices /////Are they this stupid? [View all] WingDinger Feb 2012 OP

santorum is in the market for a brain Angry Dragon Feb 2012 #1

At least one election. WingDinger Feb 2012 #3

More than nine hundred bucks, that's for sure! nt MADem Feb 2012 #24

Who has been conditioned to think that we don't have to pay for health care? Proud Liberal Dem Feb 2012 #2

Maybe Obama should declare, the defense rests. WingDinger Feb 2012 #5

That's just so many kinds of stupid DefenseLawyer Feb 2012 #4

+1 Proud Liberal Dem Feb 2012 #6

Santorum's comment reminds me of Bush's "Ain't it great" response bulloney Feb 2012 #46

Yes, yes he is fucking heartless..how can he look himself in the face? Ecumenist Feb 2012 #7

Delusion is a nasty thing npk Feb 2012 #15

I get sick and tired HeiressofBickworth Feb 2012 #8

And drug companies spend only 13% on basic R&D Canuckistanian Feb 2012 #12

Additionally, much of that R&D expense is to produce copycat or "me too" drugs PA Democrat Feb 2012 #23

Drug company marketing Art_from_Ark Feb 2012 #52

I'm posting on this thread to ensure I'm counted amongst the sane riderinthestorm Feb 2012 #9

This may make me sound like a real bastard atreides1 Feb 2012 #10

Actually, the reason his child is sick is because of a genetic disorder. MADem Feb 2012 #27

You can feel sympathy for the child nxylas Feb 2012 #41

+1!!! uponit7771 Feb 2012 #49

I have Crohn's disease. Lucky me. I have to take chemical therapy every 6 weeks for the rest of my demtenjeep Feb 2012 #11

No one would ever buy an iPad if they had to spend $900 on it every single month! tblue37 Feb 2012 #13

money from where? 3auld6phart Feb 2012 #14

This heartless candidate should just go home. midnight Feb 2012 #16

"People have no problem paying $900 for an iPad," lunasun Feb 2012 #17

Santorum Is About As Out Of Touch As Romney DallasNE Feb 2012 #18

Oh, come on, we wouldn't even HAVE those drugs he can't afford if they weren't expensive! jberryhill Feb 2012 #19

That Santorum is sure a spellbinding speaker ... 66 dmhlt Feb 2012 #20

Oh. My. God. That is the funniest picture I have ever seen! MADem Feb 2012 #29

and the rest are praying for God to take him NOW! lastlib Feb 2012 #40

Riveting! DefenseLawyer Feb 2012 #35

Priceless Picture otohara Feb 2012 #37

LOFL!! Look at the kids sleeping....OMG, they weren't planning this, he's just terrible uponit7771 Feb 2012 #50

WWJD - As Jesus would say, "hey that healin' ain't free!" ScottLand Feb 2012 #21

I'd say there's a lot of just plain, old-fashioned, arrogance involved. hobbit709 Feb 2012 #22

Who pays $900 for an iPad? baldguy Feb 2012 #25

And who buys a new $900 iPad every month? octothorpe Feb 2012 #33

And no one buys one a week. Mz Pip Feb 2012 #55

So...he's in favor of a mandate then. Or letting the rest of premium payers pick this up. ehrnst Feb 2012 #26

You would think that having a sick kid of his own would have taught him something. surrealAmerican Feb 2012 #28

Has nothing to do with learning from his own experience! atreides1 Feb 2012 #32

It's not so much "This Stupid", but rather "This Heartless". HughBeaumont Feb 2012 #30

Those ARE gaffes though a2liberal Feb 2012 #31

So out of touch and heartless............ Smilo Feb 2012 #34

Suffers from a Disease Peculiar to Wealthy Political Wanna Be's dynasaw Feb 2012 #36

Probably already been mentioned... usrname Feb 2012 #38

Little change to D for ya jmowreader Feb 2012 #53

I wonder how santorum tastes on a pious-baloney gingrich? lastlib Feb 2012 #39

Did he also say that an iPad is not a napkin or a paper towel? JBoy Feb 2012 #42

IPads last years Politicalboi Feb 2012 #43

Santarum and all the rest of these fucking so called gopiscrap Feb 2012 #44

His real god is the market. WingDinger Feb 2012 #45

This is exactly why his name works more accurately as Sanitorium (an insane asylum) Dont call me Shirley Feb 2012 #47

The biggest problem with Man on Child Santorum's answer is that it suggests no solution to Marnie Feb 2012 #48

This idiot was one of my Senators Pakid Feb 2012 #51

Message for Rick Santorum from Pope John Paul II ... Bozita Feb 2012 #54

I envision a GOP meeting to go like this: HeiressofBickworth Feb 2012 #56

Yes. They are that stupid. Zoeisright Feb 2012 #57