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I am sympathetic to the argument that expensive treatments socialized medicine pays for should be limited to those proven effective. What I am against are blank
by hackinthebochs 5y ago
I am sympathetic to the argument that expensive treatments socialized medicine pays for should be limited to those proven effective. What I am against are blanket restrictions presumably for people's own good, or to prevent "Big Pharma" from profiting or whatever bugaboo it is.
- peytn 5y agoWe can create combinatorially many drugs. There are labs that can screen hundreds of thousands of molecules a day. So approving drugs that aren’t proven effective for a disease might reasonably lead to few or no drugs that are effective because it’s so easy and relatively cheap to stuff a development pipeline with promising drugs if you don’t need to worry about whether they work at the disease stage due to crowding out effective drugs.