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I think I'll join you for a dunk in the crazy tank. The mere act of governments discussing regulating drug prices kills people.
[/ QUOTE ]If you read the two BMJ links (both of which are based on the authors' experiences of uncovering fraud by the pharmaceutical industry), you'd know that rampant profiteering kills people; it's very very easy to cheat a drug trial and then spin the results.
It was the
Vioxx scandal that led congressional hearings and to the most recent change in policy by the major medical journals; they no longer publish industry-sponsored research unless the authors can show they were contractually free to publish (as described by the ever ethical Dave Sackett
here).
It's intensely naive to think that unregulated private industry never cheats its customers. Taking that view in medicine kills people. Presumably, you agree that doctors need professional oversight for competency and ethics? Why not the salesmen who make such vast profits selling them medicines?
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Actually, a LOT of posters are against government oversight of doctors too.
[/ QUOTE ] Really? That's unbelievably naive and stupid. Wow. They get up to
lethal shenanigans left to their own devices. It took years to prove that guy a fraud, whilst several kids died as a result in the UK alone (no idea if other countries got affected by the fraud, but we still have millions of kids at risk from this thieving liar).
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Sounds like all this regulation is doing an AWESOME job of preventing stuff like this...