Frank gave up a little of his att'n to his remotely dying uncle (sorry to hear about that, of course) to write, in part:
>As a sidebar to this. The Drug Corporations don't really want to >cure your disease. They would be out of business if they cured >cancer, for example. They are in the business of selling >medicine for remedying symptoms, not curing diseases. As long as >you are sick, in danger, you'll buy their products no matter what >it costs! No, that's ridiculous. If one of them had a cure, and the others had only a palliative, the one with the cure would get all the business. And they could charge more for the cure than they'd ever make from palliation. It's true that most drugs are not curative, but if businesses had no interest in selling curative drugs, then they'd stop selling, for instance, antibiotics, which often are curative. And they don't need a totally free market to sell such products, for it pays them to sell even with the additional costs of gov't regulations. In Your Sly Tribe, Robert in the Bronx _______________________________________________ Libnw mailing list Libnw@immosys.com List info and subscriber options: http://immosys.com/mailman/listinfo/libnw Archives: http://immosys.com/mailman//pipermail/libnw
