The pharma industry requires someone to pay the bills. Goverment will be cutting their spending on anything but defense and the few items that have bribed their way into the budget. If you think that the pharmas are on the list, good for you. If they are not, who's the president won't matter. Pharma sales can represent the general distributed wealth of the country. - rather than total wealth. f the number of uninsured Americans goes up, they will be out of the pool of people consuming full-price medicines, which is the product that high pharma salaries are based on. Like it or not, it is laissez faire socialism - not laissez faire capitalism - that benefits the pharma industry and its employees. Most new jobs created by turning around the economy will be lower paying jobs and are not likely to be providing interesting benefits, including insurance until the unemployment rate drops below 5.5%.
If you are not in sales but are in R&D or Manufacturing, you need to decide who, if anyone, will attempt to keep such jobs in the US. The most likely is not the laissez faire group that feels that whatever capitalists desire is good for the country, whether jobs are retained or not. One way to think of this is to be careful to blindly align yourself to what your company's leaders suggest is the best place for your vote. They also would have all of the R&D and manufacturing jobs gone from the US.
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