http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2007/08/profits-cost-us-cures/ Just another soapbox surfer Thu, 25 Feb 2010 04:02:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2007/08/profits-cost-us-cures/comment-page-1/#comment-25870 Medicine and the Unfree Market « The Confluence Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:27:17 +0000 http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2007/08/profits-cost-us-cures/#comment-25870 [...] interference. It doesn’t work in medicine. At all. I wrote a post a while back about how Profits Cost Us Cures, but it goes way beyond the pharmaceutical industry and touches every aspect of [...] [...] interference. It doesn’t work in medicine. At all. I wrote a post a while back about how Profits Cost Us Cures, but it goes way beyond the pharmaceutical industry and touches every aspect of [...]

]]> http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2007/08/profits-cost-us-cures/comment-page-1/#comment-25869 Acid Test » Medicine and the Unfree Market Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:13:39 +0000 http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2007/08/profits-cost-us-cures/#comment-25869 [...] interference. It doesn’t work in medicine. At all. I wrote a post a while back about how Profits Cost Us Cures, but it goes way beyond the pharmaceutical industry and touches every aspect of [...] [...] interference. It doesn’t work in medicine. At all. I wrote a post a while back about how Profits Cost Us Cures, but it goes way beyond the pharmaceutical industry and touches every aspect of [...]

]]> http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2007/08/profits-cost-us-cures/comment-page-1/#comment-15704 Acid Test » Medicare costs and patient power Tue, 20 Nov 2007 23:38:46 +0000 http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2007/08/profits-cost-us-cures/#comment-15704 [...] An insidious consequence of the profit motive in drug marketing is that it actually prevents cheap and effective medicine from finding wide application. Take an extreme example. Is a drug company going to do better selling a cure for cancer or a one-shot vaccine that will prevent it for life? Remember, they can’t charge a million dollars for the vaccine. People who aren’t sick aren’t desperate. They simply won’t pay astronomical sums for prevention. (Profits cost us cures is a much longer piece I wrote on the implications.) [...] [...] An insidious consequence of the profit motive in drug marketing is that it actually prevents cheap and effective medicine from finding wide application. Take an extreme example. Is a drug company going to do better selling a cure for cancer or a one-shot vaccine that will prevent it for life? Remember, they can’t charge a million dollars for the vaccine. People who aren’t sick aren’t desperate. They simply won’t pay astronomical sums for prevention. (Profits cost us cures is a much longer piece I wrote on the implications.) [...]

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