Re: Think
- From: "Sbharris[atsign]ix.netcom.com" <sbharris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 28 Nov 2005 11:36:52 -0800
Chi wrote:
> We can purchase almost anything we
> want from 20 different countries
>
> BUT, heaven help the elderly who
> dare to buy their prescription
> drugs from a Canadian pharmacy.
>
> That's called un-American! And you think the pharmaceutical companies
> don't have a powerful lobby?
COMMENT:
The pharm companies do indeed have a powerful lobby. Much more powerful
than that of the doctors.
Medical politics in the US is controlled by insurance, pharma, HMOs,
hospital corporations, and government. We doctors just work here. We
get 20% of the money, but we are forbidden to unionize, and we're
politically too fragmented to be able to do much about anything that
goes on. I think we'd have a better system if we were in charge of it,
but I guess we'll never know, will we?
While doctors were going to school learning about medicine, the guys
who were learning about business and politics instead, took over the
whole shebang. Thus is it ever. Engineers and scientists don't get
rich, either. The people who hire them do. For that matter, the
chemists at pharm companies don't get rich, either.
SBH
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