Re:GM’s CEO Offers to Make Ventilators in WWII-Style Mobiliz...
by jacquesm on Thursday March 19, 2020 @01:23AM
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America has been on the dark path where lives are equated to money for a long time now. It will take something quite dramatic to shock the system to the point where people are willing to re-think it from the ground up. Maybe this is that shock. If not now, then probably never.
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Re:GM’s CEO Offers to Make Ventilators in WWII-Style Mobiliz...
by namibj on Thursday March 19, 2020 @01:40AM
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Except that quality-adjusted life expectancy changes due to side effects of drugs are valued much more higher than people dying due to being too broke to get any non-ER-care for acute, but not yet emergency-posing illnesses.
Even within the drug certification process there is an issue with relatively niche drugs wasting a lot on overly-extensive studies, if you calculate how many people would get how much benefit from getting/affording these niche drugs. IIRC there is about an order of magnitude higher weight on side-effect deaths compared to lack-of-medicine deaths for niche drugs.