Corporate Medicine Kills Neil Armstrong

[envy_me]

Please people, he was 82. If corporate meds could hold me alive for that long, I'd be more then satisfied...

[FORD]

Everything...

Treating a symptom over and over makes big pharma tons of money and causes insurance rates to go up...

it does nothing for the underlying cause...

If someone starts shooting people and killing them in your neighborhood, would you rather find a good treatment for bullet wounds or stop the wounds from happening by containing or killing the shooter ??

There's no money in cures...

And yet, you support the continuation of corporatized "health care" which makes this all possible. As well as no restrictions to nutcases and criminals getting their hands on guns, as far as your analogy goes.

[FORD]

Oh, I wasn't aware you were a cardiologist, vascular surgeon, or Pharmacologist.

You don't need to be one. All you need to know is, if a drug is no more effective at blood thinning than Aspirin, then why not just take Aspirin, and spare the awful side effects.

[BigBadBrian]

And yet, you support the continuation of corporatized "health care" which makes this all possible. As well as no restrictions to nutcases and criminals getting their hands on guns, as far as your analogy goes.

If you they think government-run healthcare is going to solve any problems, you are sorely mistaken. Medicare routinely turns down both treatments and medications that are tried and true AND newer medications and treatments because not enough studies have been done to prove they work!!!

[Nickdfresh]

If you they think government-run healthcare is going to solve any problems, you are sorely mistaken. Medicare routinely turns down both treatments and medications that are tried and true AND newer medications and treatments because not enough studies have been done to prove they work!!!

That's because dolts see some 'wonder drug' with often potentially horrific side-effects adverted on TV, and are told to "go ask your doctor" which is sort of bullshit. One area I'd like to see pharma curtailed and restricted is in their bullshit and massively expended advertizing...

The premise of this thread is completely "rediculous" as Elvis likes to say, though...

[FORD]

If you they think government-run healthcare is going to solve any problems, you are sorely mistaken. Medicare routinely turns down both treatments and medications that are tried and true AND newer medications and treatments because not enough studies have been done to prove they work!!!

Considering all the deaths that have come from pharma poisons that hit the market before they were truly tested in recent years, why would it be a BAD thing not to accept them until they were?

I'm not saying Medicare is a perfect system without glitches. Saw a recent example of one in my family, though it was actually the private (corporate) insurance who fucked up there, as they attempted to deny coverage for something "because Medicare wouldn't pay for it".

Ummm... isn't that your job, assholes. Thankfully this was all worked out in the end, but it was a dumb situation in the first place, and wouldn't have existed at all in any other civilized country.

[Seshmeister]

Everything...

Treating a symptom over and over makes big pharma tons of money and causes insurance rates to go up...

it does nothing for the underlying cause...

If someone starts shooting people and killing them in your neighborhood, would you rather find a good treatment for bullet wounds or stop the wounds from happening by containing or killing the shooter ??

There's no money in cures...

Utter nonsense.

[Seshmeister]

And where's that transition fossil ??

Hundreds ??

Surely you can pull one right off the top of your head ??

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=transition+fossils+list

[Angel]

That's because dolts see some 'wonder drug' with often potentially horrific side-effects adverted on TV, and are told to "go ask your doctor" which is sort of bullshit. One area I'd like to see pharma curtailed and restricted is in their bullshit and massively expended advertizing...

The premise of this thread is completely "rediculous" as Elvis likes to say, though...

They're not allowed to advertise like that up here. Of course, with cable we all see them on the US networks anyway...

[BigBadBrian]

That's because dolts see some 'wonder drug' with often potentially horrific side-effects adverted on TV, and are told to "go ask your doctor" which is sort of bullshit. One area I'd like to see pharma curtailed and restricted is in their bullshit and massively expended advertizing...

I agree with that.

[BigBadBrian]

Ummm... isn't that your job, assholes. Thankfully this was all worked out in the end, but it was a dumb situation in the first place, and wouldn't have existed at all in any other civilized country.

A lot of companies rely on Medicare standards as to whether they'll pay or not. They figure if Uncle Sam doesn't think something is effective or if it's unsafe, why should they be on the hook for the tab?