I’ve worked in Big Pharma for 20 years. We thought job security was one of the perks, and it was, until about five years ago. Now most of us wait for the shoe to drop at some point before retirement.
That story was in the Daily Mail recently.
One has to sell a lot of pills just to pay for the patent and FDA hurdles. Some of these drugs are just not that easy or cheap to make, either.
Sure, as a consumer I am often enraged by the prices, but I did work in that industry myself, once, and saw the other side of it.
This is the big down side to taking money from medicine. When it isn’t profitable to develope new drugs and ways to treat illnesses they no longer are pursued. We now will be forever stuck with the same treatments we’ve had except if they are too expensive. Pray no one you know comes down with anything too expensive to treat.
I have no doubt that we could solve cancer, but where is the payoff, where is the money to be spent doing it? The government takes, and takes, and takes, while people die from things we could invent the technology to cure.