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Jonathon · 12-07-2009, 03:14 PM

Any emergency surgeries that a medication would prevent would be in an extreme minority. Mostly the health care bill finally creates a conduit by which pharma can medicate 18 to 64 year old people, which is why they support it.

I'm in health care myself and my experience with medicine on the whole is generally negative, especially when it comes to any "long-term" conditions. It is possible that medications hurt more people than they help and keep people in the system for additional treatment of "symptoms".

That's not to say that there aren't beneficial treatments to various conditions. There is a lot of good that will be done in the 1st 6 months and likely a lot of expense for various elective and other surgeries, however once the bulk of this expense comes out, it will stabilize.

What this health care bill needs to include is patient bill of rights that eliminates conflicts of interest, like those between Big Pharma and physicians; Big Pharma and medical schools; Big Pharma and TV advertising (which allows them leverage over media). If you can't advertise tobacco on TV, I don't think pharmaceuticals should get time either. There is more efficacy in tobacco products than in most pharma products, and that says it all.

12-07-2009, 03:14 PM	#3
Jonathon Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 208	Re: Health Care - Researchers Help Any emergency surgeries that a medication would prevent would be in an extreme minority. Mostly the health care bill finally creates a conduit by which pharma can medicate 18 to 64 year old people, which is why they support it. I'm in health care myself and my experience with medicine on the whole is generally negative, especially when it comes to any "long-term" conditions. It is possible that medications hurt more people than they help and keep people in the system for additional treatment of "symptoms". That's not to say that there aren't beneficial treatments to various conditions. There is a lot of good that will be done in the 1st 6 months and likely a lot of expense for various elective and other surgeries, however once the bulk of this expense comes out, it will stabilize. What this health care bill needs to include is patient bill of rights that eliminates conflicts of interest, like those between Big Pharma and physicians; Big Pharma and medical schools; Big Pharma and TV advertising (which allows them leverage over media). If you can't advertise tobacco on TV, I don't think pharmaceuticals should get time either. There is more efficacy in tobacco products than in most pharma products, and that says it all.