Agreed. The free market is NOT, under this FDA.
Agreed. The free market is NOT, under this FDA.
I know cooking meth doesn't compare to Soliris, and I have seen Afghanis make heroin with primitive implements in a shed, but lessons could be learned from the free market street pharmacology.
Just not what you wanted to learn.
They do create new drugs quite quickly and have a fairly flexible and creative marketing and distribution program. They also managed to figure out a way to sell hundreds of billions of dollars worth of the product world-wide without the need for a third party payer system. They have also managed to do this without a complicated Rx script process, one just walks up to the distributor and buys whatever amount of product that satisfies both trading parties.
On the other hand, its real hard to guarantee the quality of the product, again this may have plenty to do with the more deadly form of regulation the government on rare occasions cares to exercise - mostly on the consumer.
What we don't see out of Big Unregulated Pharma (BUP) is the manufacturers being sued by the consumer for a bad batch of drugs. We also don't see the FedGov requiring the manufacturers to give their product away to the "needy and disadvantaged". BUP doesn't have national socialized medicine boards dictating unprofitable reimbursement rates and prices expecting the united States consumer to pay for the R&D and lawsuit expenses. From what I understand, there isn't much paperwork involved with a BUP transaction.
I believe that simply letting these ideas roll around in your head for a few minutes, a way to bring down the cost and greatly increase supply of healing pharmaceuticals can be found.