[Mr. Pockets]

I found Dean's thoughts rather interesting, even though I didn't totally understand where he was going with them. I understand that he feels like more money into R&D is the right way to go, though I'm skeptical that such research would actually reduce costs for the consumers. Ideally competition between companies would keep the cost said drugs low, but judging from JesseK's point this isn't necessarily the case. I'm no expert on the industries associated with health care though. Would anybody be able to clarify why the drugs would cost so much? Greed alone wouldn't explain why competition between producers wouldn't at least lead to at least halfway reasonable prices. Or at least I wouldn't think that they would.