Posted by SLS on October 23, 2005, at 10:57:51 [reposted on October 23, 2005, at 23:14:29 | original URL]
In reply to Re: Are we all under the Big Pharma spell?, posted by med_empowered on October 23, 2005, at 10:35:21
> Yeah...I'm not so big on Big Pharma either. I don't know if we're headed towards a "Brave New World" yet (I think the drugs would have to **WORK** and be **PLEASANT** for that to happen), but the situation certainly isn't that great. did you know that the US, with only 250 some odd million people, out of the world's 6 billion , accounts for 1/3 of the pharmaceutical industry's overall profit? 33%!! Meanwhile, docs litter their offices with drug-industry propaganda, attend free lunches, get gifts, and even have their research bought (whoops...I mean "supported") by the drug companies. Its ridiculous.
Well, it might not be totally ridiculous, but it is pretty close. The alternative to these capitalist weaknesses is greater regulation, not less. Big Brother must grow in order for the profits of pharmaceutical companies to shrink and the ethics of physicians to be legislated.
How well does socialized medicine work?
- Scott
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