> Rhetoric abounds decrying cost of medicine in the U.S. to the point some > advocate importing from Canada.
It's not rhetorical. It's a measurable and real. There is nothing rhetorical about the spirally costs of drug therapy and medicine. > Adding that to the recent fiasco regarding > the COX inhibitors leaves plenty room to wonder about efficacy of FDA. I am > somewhat concerned when I listen to physicians, who haven't bothered to > check profitability, or PE ratio, Oh my heart bleeds for those pharmacy companies. Maybe if they suffered from real market forces, they'd be more profitable, or maybe not. Who gives a damn when my mother dumps nearly $140.00 a month just on Lipitor and the physician refuses to consider diazepam from her occasional sleeping problem. Why should he when he can give her Lustra for $160 an RX. > lament drug costs. Sure, as an industry > pharmaceuticals do well, though not the absolute highest performers. You miss understand. I couldn't care if they loose money. If GM can loose money, Pfizer can as well. I have nothing at stake with their financial health, and neither does the public. > Still, > our FDA approval process has far more influence on costs than any imagined > profitability. That's just a flat out lie. The companies spend more in their bribery than they do on regulatory affairs or research. In fact, its not even close. Ruben ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
