[editor-surveyor]

>> “What a convenient article! We could save gazillions by having bureaucrats rationally and intelligently decide which tests and pills are useful and which are not. And you thought ObamaCare would not save money.” <<

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Or we could simply recognize that pills cannot and do not cure anything, but make hundreds of billions of dollars for those that use those pills to kill.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

I agree with you entirely.

[bluejay]

> Or we could simply recognize that pills cannot and do not cure anything

What an absurd statement. Of course pills cure. At times they can do it significantly cheaper than the alternative - for example, since doctors realized that peptic ulcers are caused by a bacterial infection, treatment comes down to the right antibiotics and does not require surgery.

> but make hundreds of billions of dollars for those that use those pills to kill.

Talk about a non sequitur. Are you claiming that pharma companies some how trick patients into taking medicine designed to kill them?