what happens when you get cancer?do you have to pay for the treatment in the u.s.?
i mean if yes you need to sell your house to pay your treatment....
i mean if yes you need to sell your house to pay your treatment....
DeanJ said:Pharmaceutical companies are a business, responsible to their shareholders. They are in the game to profit, so U.S. prescription users are funding the Rx R&D for the rest of the world. Direct to consumer marketing and TV ads in the U.S. are stupid... and drive up costs. The distribution of pharmaceuticals is a ridiculous model. With over 90 % of the script volumes being ongoing maintenance medications, the meds should be directly mailed to the patient from the manufacturer. But the distributers and the corner pharmacies add another 40% to what we have to pay. Stupid. Sure, we do need convenient access to prescription analgesics, antibiotics , etc. if something happens .. and we do need the with emergency refills of maintenance meds. But why the heck do we have a vast majority of prescriptions ultimately going through a retail store?
DeanJ said:Pharmaceutical companies are a business, responsible to their shareholders. They are in the game to profit, so U.S. prescription users are funding the Rx R&D for the rest of the world. Direct to consumer marketing and TV ads in the U.S. are stupid... and drive up costs. The distribution of pharmaceuticals is a ridiculous model. With over 90 % of the script volumes being ongoing maintenance medications, the meds should be directly mailed to the patient from the manufacturer. But the distributers and the corner pharmacies add another 40% to what we have to pay. Stupid. Sure, we do need convenient access to prescription analgesics, antibiotics , etc. if something happens .. and we do need the with emergency refills of maintenance meds. But why the heck do we have a vast majority of prescriptions ultimately going through a retail store?
crazypj said:That's BS.
They are in business to make money and make sure that effective CHEAP remedies can't get approval for many curable non-lethal conditions
It took over 10 yrs to get FDA approval for $10.00 stomach ulcer treatment, no surgery, 90%+ success, drug company 'treatment' was costing around $5~$700 a month, pretty much 'forever' or until something more serious developed (which made even more money)
It's pretty amazing that acetomeniphen is now being scruitinised because it can cause liver problems (which is going to be real expensive to treat) There is probably something with a better profit margin waiting to come on the market?
2_DONE_THE_TON said:what happens when you get cancer?do you have to pay for the treatment in the u.s.?
i mean if yes you need to sell your house to pay your treatment....
SONIC. said:What kind of shit employer fires someone for getting cancer?
Medical leave. Keep the insurance.
Sonreir said:She wasn't fired, she was just told that she wasn't allowed to work. She did take medical disability (so her job was secure), but her employer has no obligation to continue to provide her with benefits during her absence. You have to buy additional insurance if you want that kind of coverage. Laws differ from state-to-state, I'm told.
DeanJ said:Why would you say that's BS PJ? The Pharm companies are in the profit business. And where do you get all of these conspiracy theories ? You really think they are involved in slowing FDA approval? now that's BS ( you sound like the same morons that believe the fictional inventor of a 200 mpg carburetor has been held by the FBI since 1980 in collaboration with the oil companies.
DeanJ said:Geez PJ, go back and read what I said in the posts. I'm highly critical of the "for profit" medical/ Rx system and think it is absolutely stupid for a modern industrialized nation not to have universal care.