The Price of Remission: This Cancer Drug Saves Lives -- but Costs a Fortune. I Wanted to Know Why.

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12. This makes me inclined to throw the FDA and whole drug patent process out the window

How could it be worse??
Sure, there’d be snake oil salesman and a fraudulent-drug-free-for-all, but honestly it CAN’T be worse than this.
Even drugs that are dirt cheap that find new application get captured by the GREED MACHINE.

I guess this bullsh** is why MSNBC was getting so much advertisements for medicines. The drug companies needed to put a leash on the outlet most likely to break the truth wide open to a knowledgeable audience.

One in my circle of concern is getting a $800 Canadian equivalent for a $14,000 medicine.

The idea that others are DYING because this executive and his salesmen want to keep their cushy lifestyles, and for others, large amounts of money is just getting pushed around from employers to insurance to pharma with patients stressed needlessly and doctors burdened with bullsh** authorization procedures???

It’s beyond revolting. Give us snake oil freedoms instead.

I would also like to add that most of the research being done can just as easily get done at universities in a sane society.