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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Joe NYC who wrote (4235)2/4/2008 1:32:21 PM
From: Road Walker   of 42652
 
Before I explain why, let me just state my opinion that overwhelming majority of drugs prescribed don't help and in fact do more harm than good. Based on this opinion, I think that the less drugs prescribed the better.

I wouldn't agree with the % but I do agree that there are a lot of drugs that are more harmful than helpful out there. Anecdote: a friends wife was a pharmaceutical rep. I can't remember the name of the drug... but you may as it was heavily advertised. It was supposed to cure a fungus under your toenails... purely cosmetic as this fungus, however disgusting, wasn't harmful. In her training she learned that this stuff was very dangerous to the liver in many, many people. She refused to promote it, but never told anyone or she would have been fired.

As I said, above is just a "no FDA" hypothesis. With FDA in place, I would make it a more difficult to approve new drugs, so that there are fewer disasters like we have had recently.


There was a very good article in the New Yorker a few weeks ago about the protocols of drug testing. You might be surprised how shoddy it is. I would have posted the article here but it wasn't available on line (I get the hard copy). If you come across it it's worth the time to read.
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