Re: New York Times: Free Drug Samples? Bad Idea, Some Say

In article <f1alkf01mam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Pete" <pete@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:


That's the whole point Jeff. If they find a cure, they will lose their
continuing profit which they get from all the maintenance type drugs that
people take long term. That is where they get most of their money from. It
is a basic concept of the dog eat dog capitalistic world we live in.

Well then go ahead and cure a disease. Let me know how well it works
Cancers get cured, most infections (non-viral) get cured, etc. There are
many that get cured, even many cancers. Polio prevented and cured before
hand. Most of the rest are waiting on ways to redo the body (for example
rewire the brain and correct chemical imbalances for schizophrenia)
before cures can be effected. For some reason you are holding the pharm
companies solely responsible for the state of the art in medicine and
our knowledge of physiology, etc.

I didn't want to get into a discussion on this last part of my post, and I
just tossed it in as kind of an aside for some levity. But I don't
understand your logic on this, and doubt whether very many people would
agree with you. I see no incentive for big Pharma to try to cure a disease
and get a one time profit (so to speak) - it's not logical, even though it
is rather inhumane. Like I said, this has been discussed at length in many
ng's for years, as you are well aware of.

Of course there is a reason to cure. It ain't one time. I get a
disorder of some sort. It is cured. But there are always more with this
disorder coming up behind me. You think the advent of penicillin took
away all cases of sore throat in kids?
.

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