Every FReeper should listen to this podcast on Big Pharma.
http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2012/11/angell_on_big_p.html
Angell’s left of center, but Roberts holds her to reason. Her biggest revelation is the capture of the FDA by Big Pharma.
They no longer have to show all their study results and research universities sponsored by them cannot even see the results. That’s not good at all.
We need more transparency and an end to regulatory capture.
The other issue she brings up is that the government pays the same for a drug prescription as they do for talk-therapy. Talk-therapy is as effective as the drug, yet a psychiatrist can write 4-5 scrips in the time it takes to have a single session. Government has messed up all the incentives in the system.
Yhanks — very thoughtful of you to send this on!