YES or NO

Quote: rxwine

the backyard inventor who keeps wondering why no one notices the device that increases mileage

Quote: FleaStiff

>>>>Was there a specific example of a cure that was discovered and suppressed?
Zillions. Look how long it actually took to suppress scurvy via lime juice. Look at all the doctors who refused to even keep statistics on hand washing in hospitals. Look at how long it took doctors to resist treatment with sunlight despite nurses having noticed that neonates with a certain disease were always located in the center of the room well away from the windows. Look how long there was a campaign to ignore Dr. Cade because he was an Australian country doctor, not a research fellow and was advocating a non-patentable treatment of lithium salts. Look how long America ignored a country doctor because he was black and had polio cure rates that were too high? Look how long it was "known" that Pellegra was an infectious disease until one brave Southern governor promised parole to ALL prisoners, White or Black who offered themselves for experimentation.



>>>>But anyway, no need to worry, they've found several ways to act unethically in this area anyway.
>>>>(performing unnecessary procedures, false or questionable treatments, ...
Such as "reducing tumor burden" in cancer patient treatment: massive expenditures to reduce the number and size of tumors at great discomfort to the patient, but not one moment of a longer life, just fewer and smaller tumors.
>>>> fooling with patents so generics don't reach to market as soon as they might,
Oh thats nothing, look at how so much research is "me tooism" rather than actually advancing the state of knowledge,
Or look at how most drugs are vitamin analogs but research is not done on the vitamins because those can't be patented.
>>>> price gouging,
Oh come now, whether it be a pharmaceutical drug or a recreational drug, you KNOW the producers want competition eliminated. Heroine or Aspirin makes no difference, keep the competitors few and barriers of entry high.
> most likely areas of the health insurance market...)
Wall street judges a health insurance company by how LITTLE it spends on patients with health problems, just as it judges a fire insurance company by how many solid stone houses directly across from a fire station are insured.

So go tell the quacks to treat Tosis (a condition of the vital organs being too high in the chest instead of at the proper levels as shown in autopsies... until someone pointed out data derived from corpses just might not be relevant to the living).

Quote: Garnabby

There already is such a drug under testing for dissolving all but the major blockages of the arteries which will then still be otherwise replaced manually (with those of the patient's arm/leg).

I don't have the specs, but know this because my significant other had a bi-bass years ago, so i listened to the news-segment when it appeared about a year ago.

Quote: kp

If a research scientist was on track to discover a device to increases automobile mileage, the company would shut down the program because that is not the business that are in. Likewise, they are not in the business to cure disease, just to treat it.

Pharmaceutical companies are in the subscription business. Like cable companies, they depend on the monthly reoccurring revenue. Also like the cable company they would not be interested in selling a product that was a one-time purchase and replaced the monthly revenue stream. What business in their right mind would go for such a deal?

Quote: dm

That's precisely the point. Health care should not be a mere business. I see it as an inherent right.

Quote: Ayecarumba

So doctor's should work for free? How will they pay back their Federal student loans? Does everyone deserve Mayo Clinic level expertise, or just Free Clinic?

Quote: kp

Pharmaceutical companies are in the subscription business.

Quote: dm

Under study, my ass.