Comments on: How Ortho-McNeil is killing family-planning clinics http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/08/how-ortho-mcneil-is-killing-family.html medical blog Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:44:11 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/08/how-ortho-mcneil-is-killing-family.html/comment-page-1#comment-66524 Anonymous Fri, 25 Aug 2006 13:06:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/08/how-ortho-mcneil-is-killing-family-planning-clinics.html#comment-66524 Or it may be because birth control pill manufacturers are being sued.<br/><br/>http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2006-08-23-drug-lawsuits-usat_x.htm Or it may be because birth control pill manufacturers are being sued.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2006-08-23-drug-lawsuits-usat_x.htm

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/08/how-ortho-mcneil-is-killing-family.html/comment-page-1#comment-66510 Anonymous Fri, 25 Aug 2006 00:13:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/08/how-ortho-mcneil-is-killing-family-planning-clinics.html#comment-66510 So a private company, that was basically giving away its product in the past, (presumably at its loss but on the hope that ultimately that would build its brands) decides to actually charge for its product (and a whopping $0.75 a day, if the story is right), and suddenly they are greedy? Well, Slate is officially the outlet for the entitlement set. Cry me a river. What an awful violation of human rights and standards of decency. So patients who receive greatly subsidized health care, even free care, have cause to complain because a private company won't give away its wares for free also? I am not moved to sympathize here. What next, free housing and food? (never mind) So a private company, that was basically giving away its product in the past, (presumably at its loss but on the hope that ultimately that would build its brands) decides to actually charge for its product (and a whopping $0.75 a day, if the story is right), and suddenly they are greedy? Well, Slate is officially the outlet for the entitlement set. Cry me a river. What an awful violation of human rights and standards of decency. So patients who receive greatly subsidized health care, even free care, have cause to complain because a private company won’t give away its wares for free also? I am not moved to sympathize here. What next, free housing and food? (never mind)

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