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If by "help" you mean, make a pharmaceutical company potentially millions or even billions of dollars, then sure.
by leshow 7y ago
If by "help" you mean, make a pharmaceutical company potentially millions or even billions of dollars, then sure.
- wasdfff 7y agoAnd how did they make billions? By helping patients.
- cwkoss 7y agoConversely, the pharma company could identify a population that for which other treatments are ineffective, and use that data to justify raising price of their monopoly lifesaving treatment. Pharma industry is in the business of profiting off disease, helping is a side effect and marketing line.
- damnlies 7y agoBy bankrupting people, actually, and artificially charging as much as possible. God, it's like someone trained a Markov generator on Ayn Rand novels and PG essays.
- leshow 7y agoThey make money by selling pharmaceuticals. There's a difference.
- drusepth 7y agoIf a pharmaceutical company coming up with a cure for some of the worst currently-incurable diseases known to man makes them potentially millions or even billions of dollars, that seems like a win-win for everyone.
- leshow 7y agoWow a "cure". Wouldn't that be nice. It's equally likely it could be used to develop a super expensive treatment of questionable effectiveness.
- partiallypro 7y agoIf that pharma company helps people, while it makes money...so what?