The situations with the U.S drug mfgrs, as with issues of politics & the environment are 100 times more complicated than anything the evening news can dispense in it's biased, 90 second snippets.

There is a reason that over 90% of all new drugs are developed in the U.S. Unlike much of the world, our system allows for the mfgrs to reap a huge pot of gold for developing a successful new drug.

New drugs usually require 100's of millions of dollars and years of R&D before they are submitted (with their semi-truckload of paperwork) to the FDA. Then a substantial number of the drugs ARE NOT approved. The time & money is lost. Without the pot of gold incentive new R&D will come to a halt.

It's a dilemma for the politicians.

I would be all for supporting the drug mfgrs except lately they seem more interested spending $$ for TV ads for prescription drugs than R&D.