In echo of Bethany's post about health care costs, we have Thankful by Mark Stoler over at Things Have Changed. He is thankful for Big Medicine and Big Pharma
In echo of Bethany's post about health care costs, we have Thankful by Mark Stoler over at Things Have Changed. He is thankful for Big Medicine and Big Pharma
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Over on X, Cremieux posted a note saying that cystic fibrosis is now a controllable condition rather than a death sentence because of new treatments. Life expectancy for CF patients has risen from 27 (in 2000) to 66 today. Big Pharma can do some things right.
Yes. I see way too many people talking about how healthy everyone was before Big Pharma made everybody sick and kept them sick
David Foster, I understand you are being somewhat sarcastic but, as AVI has pointed out in similar contexts, that's exactly what it would look like to a naive observer. Those chronically ill either died earlier or were so incapacitated as to be essentially invisible, even without assuming there might be more prescriptions given in marginal situations when treatment is easy and has minimal side effects.
Christopher B...no sarcasm intended at all. And very true that earlier deaths in previous times prevented a lot of chronic conditions which we see today. "A leading cause of problems is solutions"
That was my impression, DF, glad you clarified it. There really is an increase in people saying "I don't know what this medication even does and its expensive and has side effects. Big Pharma must be ripping us off." Its part of the general mindset of "This product costs more than I think it should. This proves we need socialism."
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