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To: skinowski who wrote (185)2/23/2004 8:53:24 PM
From: patron_anejo_por_favor  Read Replies (1) of 17783
 
<<But in the end drugs get good enough to beat the disease outright and thus displace doctor and the hospital altogether.>>

That of course, is BS...most health care dollars in the US are spent on chronic illnesses (diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, end stage renal disease, COPD, not to mention dementia). Drug treatment rarely "beats" the disease, it may ameliorate it and delays the day of reckoning. Meantime, another problem or problems pop out of the woodwork. Sicker patients live longer, accumulating more and more hospital time of the course of their longer lives than if they had succumbed to the first bout of pneumonia, like it was in 1920. Basically, more New-Age hedonic claptrap....
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