Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 30 2012 @ 07:43 PM EDT |
When someone points to Rwanda their key point is "more Rwandans got basic health
care than Americans." Sure Catholic Charities could step up and fill the void
here at home, rather than the void in say, Malawi. Is that their charter? What
does even the suggestion say of us?
For instance.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 30 2012 @ 09:01 PM EDT |
What i can't understand is how drugs are developed with huge tax dollars
(R&D concessions) being piped to the drug companies themselves, yet when a
drug is finally released to market, a $0.10 tablet costs the earth. (and the
drug companies use international trade agreements to change state laws and
increase drug costs for that countries population).
Really i'd love to see some real data on the where the development cost for a
drug actually comes from as i suspect much/most of it comes from the state yet
much/most of the profit goes to private corporations.
If indeed much/most of the development costs come from the state, this would
support a mandate for much cheaper drugs which would raise the bar of basic
health care accordingly and thus provide a better return for all the state
invested R&D tax concessions.
It may be that a focus on basic health care is the correct approach. Technology
should the be used to raise the bar but not the cost.
We all want to live long and prosper but to try and cheat death is a loosing
game, and we all loose at the end. But the current game just makes the drug
companies very very rich in the process (which is aided funded by the state) and
one has to wonder whether the current system of drug development is indeed a
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Authored by: mpellatt on Sunday, July 01 2012 @ 02:42 AM EDT |
Indeed.
My wife has recently had a procedure where the surgeon made
use of
a product called Strattice (google it and you'l soon
work out the condition she
(hopefully) had).
Here we know little of the cost of the treatments we have,
but it's clear from the USA-based support fora that this
product costs many
thousands of dollars. I guess, if you
have early breast cancer diagnosed in
Ruanda (how ??) then
reconstruction is unlikely to be an option.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 05 2012 @ 01:04 PM EDT |
So, you know.... why hot?
And Catholic Charities doesn't WANT to supply basic preventative medicine,
because that might involve not forcing women to die in pregnancy, and the
Catholic Church is all about forcing women to die in pregnancy. So that's not
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