Re:U.S. Income Inequality Hits a New Threshold
by drb91 on Thursday March 01, 2018 @03:29PM
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Seems like a great place to nationalize the means of production! Why not? Economic incentives are inherently at odds with helpful medicine. If it helps too much you can't make money off it!
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Re:U.S. Income Inequality Hits a New Threshold
by marnett on Thursday March 01, 2018 @03:55PM
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Modern day big-pharma would have shelved the polio vaccine in place of a daily pill one must take for the remainder of one's life.
Re:U.S. Income Inequality Hits a New Threshold
by eanzenberg on Thursday March 01, 2018 @05:37PM
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Error, wrong, incorrect. Modern day big-pharma developed vaccines such as HPV. Current market forces incentivizes "best" treatment (heavily regulated of course as it should be). Don't spew false facts to try to push an agenda.
Re:U.S. Income Inequality Hits a New Threshold
by marnett on Friday March 02, 2018 @01:07PM
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> Modern day big-pharma
the polio vaccine was released in 1955. My thought experiment literally cannot be "error, wrong, incorrect."
I'll solidify my thought experiment to Valeant. Valeant would have bought the polio vaccine, hiked the price, and reported significant growth in returns while the disease was not being eliminated.
Not to mention your assumption a pharma company created the first polio vaccine is false - it was developed at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine with heavy backing by the U.S. government.