Re: [Hardhats-members] RE: VistA Imaging FDA and NonCommercial Use Re: [Hardhats-members] Re: TIU Interface for Document Scanning

[Greg Kreis]

I don't see how this discussion is relevant to hardhats.  There are lists where people can debate the cost of medicine and the reasons for it. We have over 400 subscribers and I suspect that most of them are here because this is the hardhats list and they have a general expectations of the content. Also, let's keep our discussions more civil and less inflammatory. Ruben Safir wrote: 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 -- Greg Kreis http://www.PioneerDataSys.com "You are today where your thoughts have brought you, you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you." (James Lane Allen)