With no prospects for profits, big pharma neglects new infectious diseases

Re:With no prospects for profits, big pharma neglects new in... by refurb on Saturday March 07, 2020 @12:04AM (#22509847)

Artificially distributed? It's no different than paying a drug maker a ton of money to make the drugs and stockpile them.

And at any rate, the alternative is what we have now - no drugs to treat these diseases.

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Re:With no prospects for profits, big pharma neglects new in... by _bxg1 on Saturday March 07, 2020 @12:11AM (#22509870)

I wasn't using the word "artificial" in a negative sense; I was pointing out that this is a narrow example of socialized healthcare and why it's beneficial.

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Re:With no prospects for profits, big pharma neglects new in... by refurb on Saturday March 07, 2020 @12:25AM (#22509937)

Gotcha.

As an aside, the "netflix model" for drug payments is already a reality in Louisiana. Basically the drug maker and state government negotiated a payment for enough hepatitis C drugs to cure everyone in the state.[1]

[1]http://ldh.la.gov/index.cfm/newsroom/detail/5181

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Re:With no prospects for profits, big pharma neglects new in... by luckydata on Saturday March 07, 2020 @12:54AM (#22510044)

Yeah, it's called single payer and it's pretty effective. We should try it on other diseases, all of them.

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Re:With no prospects for profits, big pharma neglects new in... by anewhope on Saturday March 07, 2020 @01:12AM (#22510099)

> treat patients within Louisiana’s Medicaid and Department of Corrections populations

Only Medicaid + inmates, not everyone in the state?

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