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Originally Posted by Ike Bana
Big pharma lies like dogs. When they are confronted with how RX is managed in the EU and that sick people are not forced to decide between food and meds in the EU, you know what we get from big pharma. We get..."Our R&D costs for bringing new drugs to market will be overwhelming if our profit margins are controlled. Sick people who need these new products will die...blah...blah."
Which is utter bullshit since big pharma spends more money on advertising than they spend, or ever have spent, on R&D.
And...big pharma also knows that their advertising causes idiotic Americans to run to their idiotic primary care docs (GP's and in the case of idiotic American women, idiotic OB/GYN primary care docs) who won't say 'no' to their patient demands for the wonder drug they see on the TeeVee. Most of the board certified psychiatrists I know will not allow their patients to dictate what psychotropics they will be prescribing.
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When Florence was still taking the Novartis BP meds it was over $600 for a 90 day supply. In Canada that same med was just over $220 for the 90 day supply. It is not only Big Pharma but also the simple fact that there are at most four drug wholesalers here and if they are not price fixing then I am the King of Roumania (apologies to Dorothy Parker.). Again the effing middleman.
The generic is equally effective and even much cheaper.
As for mental health care the simple fact that some years back, about the time of 'On flew over the cuckoo's nest and Nurse Ratchett' they closed all the state hospitals. So now you can at public expense diagnose and prescribe drugs for mentally ill people but you can't legally make them take those drugs. So thanks to piss poor reporting these folks are not on the banned list and can buy weapons, or their mother can buy weapons and leave them lying about.