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Originally Posted by smurfalicious
pills are expen$ive. and they need to be in order to fund : - a store every square mile
- advertising
- the educations of the physicians who will one day prescribe their drug(s)
- vacations and other "gifts" for the physicians to write the scrips
And a bandaid is a lot easier to apply than fixing the problem. No, don't cut out the fried chicken wings and beer... just take your cholesterol pill every day to keep the numbers down. |
To be fair, R&D for a new drug is a long, slow and uncertain process. They need to fund that too. But the "illnesses" they choose to develop drugs for is another controversy. We now have pills to give 85 year old men hard-ons, but no new treatments for malaria for decades.
The bandaid point is a good one. And for a Pharma company, they would rather sell you a
treatment than a
cure. You get cured, you don't come back. Temporary alleviation of symptoms, now
that's good business practice.