Satire: Drug Prices Too Low Declares Bush

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" Drug Prices Too Low " Declares Bush

Author: Pharmaceutical Executives Face Mothballing

Their Yachts

 

Saturday, July 31, 2004 Posted: 10:37 AM (-0500 TZ)

 

BOSTON (GWB) --

President Bush recommended price supports for the

ailing drug industry during a stopover at a major

manufacturing facility. According to a recent study by

the drug industry, profits have dipped to 30% in the

first half of 2003, setting off alarms bells

throughout Wall Street. Congress has demanded action.

 

Between calls for cheap Cipro for anthrax victims and

affordable antiretrovirals for AIDS patients,

pharmaceutical executives are hardly able to maintain

their yachts and palaces. And without these, the

American economy will surely collapse, as literally

millions of jobs depend on maintaining the billionaire

lifestyle.

 

A major problem in the drug pricing war is that

Africans are exploiting U.S. pharmaceuticals with

their self-serving complaints of lack of purchasing

power. Drugs that keep HIV/AIDS patients alive in the

U.S. were costing $10,000 a year by the late 1990s.

Africans have been trying to cheat U.S.

pharmaceuticals out of $9750 per patient per year by

requesting generic equivalents produced by Indian

firms for $250.

 

Fortunately, President Bush has taken offense at this

outrageous attempt to rob good American companies. In

a few more years there will be 70 million AIDS cases

in sub-Saharan Africa, so we're headed for a grossly

immoral outcome unless African suffering and death is

rated less important than corporate profits. Thank God

President Bush is a good Christian who knows right

from wrong. There's no question he'll do the right

thing.