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**CVEGK7mV** · 12-04-2006, 10:35 PM

The med/pharm industry makes way too much money treating illnesses to actually CURE anything else.

Who would need to go the doc or the pharmacy after they have been cured?

NO ONE!

Face it, we stopped having "patients" in this country a long time ago. We are now all CUSTOMERS.

It's all about repeat business.

Originally Posted by terryd5150

It's a scary thought isn't it? Unfortunately the ones spending money on R&D for new drug are pharmaceutical companies. They develop the drugs and then the FDA approves or denies based on the drug trials. But who conducts the trials? The drug companies. The very same people who stand the most to gain from sales. For instance, take a drug company who's patented a drug that alleviates pain from gastro-intestinal reflux angina and makes 1.5 billion dollars a year from sales of that drug. What incentive do they have to develop a cure for reflux angina?

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CVEGK7mV Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 459 Senior Member	The med/pharm industry makes way too much money treating illnesses to actually CURE anything else. Who would need to go the doc or the pharmacy after they have been cured? NO ONE! Face it, we stopped having "patients" in this country a long time ago. We are now all CUSTOMERS. It's all about repeat business. Originally Posted by terryd5150 It's a scary thought isn't it? Unfortunately the ones spending money on R&D for new drug are pharmaceutical companies. They develop the drugs and then the FDA approves or denies based on the drug trials. But who conducts the trials? The drug companies. The very same people who stand the most to gain from sales. For instance, take a drug company who's patented a drug that alleviates pain from gastro-intestinal reflux angina and makes 1.5 billion dollars a year from sales of that drug. What incentive do they have to develop a cure for reflux angina?
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