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SergeStorms

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10. Someone has to pay for.....
Wed Jan 1, 2025, 02:52 PM
Jan 2025

the almost $16 billion pharmaceutical companies spend on marketing in the U.S. each year. They spend more on marketing than they do on research and development. That's a fact. Hence the constant advertising on TV of their new "wonder drugs." It's also why Americans spend more on Healthcare than any other country on the planet.

Give the poor guys a break, will you?

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