Re:$1,000-a-day miracle drug shocks U.S. health care system
by chrisBob on Friday April 04, 2014 @11:52AM
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Sounds like a good argument for nationalized health care to me.
Re:$1,000-a-day miracle drug shocks U.S. health care system
by mhb on Friday April 04, 2014 @11:56AM
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Because you're confident that with that system and its incentives this drug would have been invented? As well as the ones which haven't been invented yet?
Re:$1,000-a-day miracle drug shocks U.S. health care system
by justinreeves on Friday April 04, 2014 @05:11PM
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> Because you're confident that with that system and its incentives this drug would have been invented?
No way to guarantee this drug would have been invented. However,
> As well as the ones which haven't been invented yet?
I'm absolutely confident that we will work on curing disease until we no longer have to.
Re:$1,000-a-day miracle drug shocks U.S. health care system
by toomuchtodo on Friday April 04, 2014 @11:57AM
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I could say the same thing for for-profit drug discovery.
Re:$1,000-a-day miracle drug shocks U.S. health care system
by omgriffiths on Friday April 04, 2014 @08:20PM
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Actually sounds like an argument for getting government out of healthcare, as only the patient can truly care about the end to end efficiency.
So even though you have an $84K per course price tag, patients given this drug get cured, significantly reducing the overall burden to the healthcare system, especially if they don't need a liver transplant.
One of the difficult things in showing value in the healthcare system is that nobody is looking at the overall costs. Hospitals worry about their costs, insurance companies about theirs. So even if a drug saves money overall, you'll often find many healthcare providers saying "no" because it doesn't save them money.