Canada - Healthcare "Parasite"

Toro

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May 24, 2005
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Do you think we should be paying for their failed drugs?

Of course.

Everything you buy you pay for failure somewhere. Companies have large R&D budgets that produce only the occasional commercial product and many failures.
 

ironsides

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Feb 13, 2009
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Maybe you are unfamiliar with how this works. Dichloroacetate is a drug currently prescribed for something else. The patent ran out on the drug long ago. The new studies have shown promising results investigating the glucose metabolism (glycolysis) of cancer cells, though no human clinical trials have been conducted. In order to receive licensing to sell this drug as a cancer cure, somebody needs to pay for the clinical trials. No pharmaceutical company will do this, because as the patent has already ran out, a generic brand could sell the cancer cure once the other company produces the results in clinical trials. It's not a new drug, so you can't patent it. So they can't make their money back. So we're stuck with chemotherapy and radiation treatment, with adverse health side effects until someone out of the goodness of their heart spends that money. There is no profit incentive. So it must be from a philanthropist, or public funds.

I totally misunderstood what you were referring to Dichloroacetate. What I do not understand is that if it is a drug any pharmacy can produce and sell, why don't they. Any company could make a fortune from a effective cancer treatment. I agree with you, someone or some goverment should get involved with this.
 

karrie

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I totally misunderstood what you were referring to Dichloroacetate. What I do not understand is that if it is a drug any pharmacy can produce and sell, why don't they. Any company could make a fortune from a effective cancer treatment. I agree with you, someone or some goverment should get involved with this.

how could they make a fortune from an effective cancer treatment with no patent, that costs mere dollars?
 

ironsides

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So much for getting a second opinion.



Opinions you can get, it is easier to get multiple prescriptions for same problem from shady doctors (they don't even take a look at you, legal drug pushers). Here in Florida they have what are called pain clinics where all they do is have a doctor write out prescriptions for 100's of pills at a time. People come from other states to buy and resell back home. The state is now just writing legislation to shut them down.