[geeks] Drug prices (was Re: nVidia 8800GT for Apple Mac Pro)

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" From: Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at verizon.net>
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" If you starve a Pharma of cash, you stifle innovation and you reduce
" the number of new companies that enter the market (why go into Pharma
" if your work product will be stolen?). Amazingly, many people think
" new drug compund "fall out of the sky" - it is a very expensive
" process to develop a new drug, or even get approval for a new use of
" an existing drug.

in principle, but - major drug cos here spend on marketing/advertising
2-3x their r&d budgets.  that tells you where -they- think the money
is.

" Personally, I'd like to see Pharma's be prevented from advertising
" drugs to consumers here in teh US. That just makes no sense to me -
" your Doctor wants to prescribe compound A, but you convince him that
" you want compound B because you like the ad they ran in Time Magazine?
" WTF?

agreed.  the info should be available somehow; i've heard of enough
cases where the patient was more informed than the doctor, but the
slanted half-truths that pass for advertising should be banned.
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