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US vs. Rwanda
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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US vs. Rwanda
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
fair one.

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US vs. Rwanda
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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But the US doesn't even supply basic preventative medicine.
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
really an option either....

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