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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (489232)	6/19/2009 7:21:35 PM
From: bentway	Respond to of 1571924

"Too many people can easily deny the amount of advancement we've made in pharmaceuticals over the past few decades. That's now taken for granted." They've made a lot of great discoveries. Would they have made them without screwing Americans and using us as cash cows? Probably. They've also devoted enormous efforts to: -Advertising, and advertising drugs people didn't even know they needed, like a pill to kill the little bugs that make some people's nails yellow. -Fighting to keep old, cash cow drugs "on patent" past their fair time. -Reformulating "new" drugs that are really just minor tweaks of old drugs, that deliver no more benefit than the old ones. My doc prefers prescribing the older drugs, for safety. -combining two formerly separate drugs into a "new" drug. It's cheaper to take the two seperate drugs, especially if they are generic. I suspect that any actual cures found are locked in a vault, if any ARE found. Why should they even LOOK for cures when the business model that works for them is to have people HAVE to take their pills for life?