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Re:The Danger of Managing Drug Prices by DanBC on Saturday September 12, 2015 @04:58PM (#10209360)
> That money is going somewhere.

A lot of it is going on over diagnosing and over treating, both of which cause harm.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unnecessary_health_care

Re:The Danger of Managing Drug Prices by fredkbloggs on Saturday September 12, 2015 @05:22PM (#10209431)
So you're agreeing at least in part with my original assertion, then. Namely, that we probably need to be less willing to pay high prices for drugs (and by extension other treatments) because in many cases they are of much less value than other things we could buy instead. Right? I mean, overtreatment has negative value, so it's hard not to imagine that what was paid for it couldn't have been better spent on something else. Anything else. Throwing the money into a fire would have provided more value.
Re:The Danger of Managing Drug Prices by specialist on Saturday September 12, 2015 @06:52PM (#10209665)
No. Over testing and over treatment is unrelated to the (initial) high price of drugs and other treatments.