The innovation of drugs

Its funny to me some of the stats on medical drugs. While the majority of the story is about Germany, there is another very important part of the story. The US produces approx 70% of the new crop of drugs that are saving lives. 70% is a large number. We heard enourmous amounts of hand wringing during the 2004 election year about the massive costs of drugs for people, ecspecially the elderly, but those same companies that are charging for these drugs are the same ones that sink all the money into research. And we are having some people that think we should get the generic companies drugs from Canada. This seems to me to be contradictory since it kills the research. Do you support the majority that can get the new wonderdrugs or do you believe that the generics are okay since they are cheaper with the possibility that the drug companies that produce all the new innovations are gonna have to cut back or drop their research from lack of funds?