I agree, Lindy; very interesting but also very depressing.

What angers me, especially, is the reported agreements the Obama administration made with big pharma when negotiating over whether they (pharma) would not oppose the health care legislation, the Affordable Care Act passed last year. Alas, the very existence of that act now appears endangered by politicians feverishly slashing at it and anything else that the current US administration is attempting to accomplish. I wonder how much smaller the federal deficit would be if pharma were paying their fair share of taxes rather than getting huge R&D tax write-offs for enormously inflated "estimated costs" of what developing drugs and vaccines really are.

Too political, Chemar?

Robert