"Current incentives for research produce a few that substantially improve patients' chances of getting better or avoiding death but a large number of barely innovative drugs each year. These new drugs of little benefit consume about four-fifths of all drug costs.

"The incentives and institutional practices around testing and regulatory review predictably result in approvals being based on trials so biased and poorly run that no one knows how much better or worse new drugs are."

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When the incentive to invent new drugs comes from Patents expiring, the FDA doesn't have the budget to do it's own testing and must rely on "salesmen" to do it and 3 fifths of costs are in self defence of lawsuits from 1/1000th of the users that had a bad experience and no two people are the same....it's all "little wonder" that the situation is what it is, insisting on absolutes when NONE exist.

How much does it cost to pay for the impossible ?

Ebay has seller/product/service/buyer feedback ratings...very few are 100%, but they ARE useful to make a risk to success assessment of your own.

No one can sell what you won't buy...period.
One website to collect user data and calculate risks from "experience" and we all could make an informed independent decision. Doctors would have the incentive to mention an array of possibilities to be considered if YOU are the ones making the choices...or he/she never sees you again. If WE took the responsibility for those decisions, costs would go down dramatically.

You don't have to defend yourself from a sale you didn't make and the buyer judiciously chose. They keep making new drugs because we keep wanting miracles...and we are quite willing to make someone else pay for them and take the heat when they are what they really are. THEY don't pay when you sue them..WE ALL do. [They don't pay taxes either, they pass the cost to the consumer and cannot do otherwise.]

"You can't con an honest man"
If WE are not being honest and realistic, why should they be?

Blame puts the power right into the hands of those that YOU say, cares the least.

What happened to OUR incentives ?
 We have a LOT of power we are scared to use...far more than they do.

They can only "hope" that you listen and believe.....positive or negative....NO ONE can shut us up.

 Whoreshippers:
 Screw the priests....find God your own damned self.
 Ask your neighbor if they saw Him go by...track Him down.

Ode


At 04:41 PM 8/17/2010 -0400, you wrote:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/7950243/Drug-companies-accused-of-conning-the-public.html

Marshall


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