To: Gorzaloon
I am not enraged by the prices.Without those prices there would not be those drugs. We pay the stratospheric prices for NEW drugs because the rest of the world will not pay for the R&D. All Pharmacological R&D is aimed at the American market because it is the last market that will support it because it is still a relatively free market. If the rest of the world paid the patent prices for these drugs the price would not be so high for the patent period and more of these drugs would come on the market. My primary concern is antibiotics. If we stop developing new drugs then we have simply said that our level of medical advance is so far beyond historical norms that we can afford to stop here and say this is far enough.
Except for antibiotics. A new antibiotic begins to decline in effectiveness as soon as it is in use and R&D has to be continuous to replace each new antibiotic with a newer more effective one. Once there is no more R&D then in a generation we will be medically back to 1910 or so- you get sick you die. And it is not just that our little illnesses become big fatal ones- all hospitals will become deathtraps and operations will not be done except when necessary immediately to save the life of the patient(if the deciding bureaucrat determines the patient is worth more economically alive than dead) and mortality will be very high.
20 posted on
06/16/2010 1:25:37 PM PDT by
arthurus
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To: arthurus
I am not enraged by the prices.Without those prices there would not be those drugs. We pay the stratospheric prices for NEW drugs because the rest of the world will not pay for the R&D. Hence the low prices of these same drugs in other countries, and the rise of internet pharmacies. And when patents expire, it's a free-for-all.
24 posted on
06/16/2010 2:17:23 PM PDT by
Gorzaloon
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