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What about pricing and marketing? Is it ok for a doctor to create a new "placibo treatment" and market it as the real deal on late night tv just because some no

What about pricing and marketing? Is it ok for a doctor to create a new "placibo treatment" and market it as the real deal on late night tv just because some non zero percentage of people will mark that they had improved symtopms. What is the fair price for a sugar pill that the doctors and compaines are empowered to lie about. Ones mind and mindset play a big role in healing the body and we have far more powerful tools for effecting the mind then future doctor's lies and sugar pills. We have therapy, counseling and the love of family and friends. In my mind its all about hope which doctors can deliver to patients far better with smiles and compassion then sugar pills.

CiPHPerCoder 8y ago
> What is the fair price for a sugar pill that the doctors and compaines are empowered to lie about. $0. Health care costs have ruined many, and that's frankly unethical. I don't see a point treating the unethical American health care system as a premise in these ethical debates.
- justsomedood 8y ago
  What if it being $0 reduces to placebo effect so that it no longer is effective?
  - CiPHPerCoder 8y ago
    What if the opposite effect happens? https://www.marketplace.org/2015/03/03/health-care/how-cost-drug-impacts-placebo-effect https://www.marketplace.org/2015/03/03/health-care/how-cost-...
- njarboe 8y ago
  Why would you think manufacturing and distributing a sugar pill should cost $0? Many drugs are basically the same cost as sugar and those aren't free. How about $5 for a bottle of 100.
  - pishpash 8y ago
    Precisely, what is advertisement and marketing if not creating an incremental value from a placebo effect?