$1,000-a-day miracle drug shocks U.S. health care system

Re:$1,000-a-day miracle drug shocks U.S. health care system by chrisBob on Friday April 04, 2014 @11:52AM (#7532200)

Sounds like a good argument for nationalized health care to me.

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Re:$1,000-a-day miracle drug shocks U.S. health care system by mhb on Friday April 04, 2014 @11:56AM (#7532241)

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?

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Re:$1,000-a-day miracle drug shocks U.S. health care system by justinreeves on Friday April 04, 2014 @05:11PM (#7534417)

> 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.

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Re:$1,000-a-day miracle drug shocks U.S. health care system by toomuchtodo on Friday April 04, 2014 @11:57AM (#7532253)

I could say the same thing for for-profit drug discovery.

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Re:$1,000-a-day miracle drug shocks U.S. health care system by omgriffiths on Friday April 04, 2014 @08:20PM (#7535341)

Actually sounds like an argument for getting government out of healthcare, as only the patient can truly care about the end to end efficiency.

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