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You are not wrong here, capitalism is the rule to make as much money as possible (be it by selling legal drugs, weapons, food, gambling, insurance). The role o

You are not wrong here, capitalism is the rule to make as much money as possible (be it by selling legal drugs, weapons, food, gambling, insurance). The role of a state and it's laws is to control and limit these companies. A lot of people think it's good to assassinate the CEO of an insurance company, but then I ask, where are the checks and balances, where is the state? If you have to have insurance, the state has to make rules where it's almost impossible for the insurance company not to pay the necessary actions (like in Europe). With McKinsey...what did the FDA do wrong here would be my first question. Don't hate the companies, criticise the state (who is the responsible blob to keep a society healthy).

refurb 2y ago
> If you have to have insurance, the state has to make rules where it's almost impossible for the insurance company not to pay the necessary actions (like in Europe). Exactly. Capitalism without rules ends up with situations that we would like to avoid as a society. Thus the government should step in create guard rails and enforce them. The government, through the FDA and DEA, played a large role in the huge increase in the abuse of Oxycontin during the 90's. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2622774/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2622774/ When OxyContin entered the market in 1996, the FDA approved its original label, which stated that iatrogenic addiction was “very rare” if opioids were legitimately used in the management of pain. In July 2001, to reflect the available scientific evidence, the label was modified to state that data were not available for establishing the true incidence of addiction in chronic-pain patients. The 2001 labeling also deleted the original statement that the delayed absorption of OxyContin was believed to reduce the abuse liability of the drug.19

refurb 2y ago

> If you have to have insurance, the state has to make rules where it's almost impossible for the insurance company not to pay the necessary actions (like in Europe). Exactly. Capitalism without rules ends up with situations that we would like to avoid as a society. Thus the government should step in create guard rails and enforce them. The government, through the FDA and DEA, played a large role in the huge increase in the abuse of Oxycontin during the 90's. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2622774/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2622774/ When OxyContin entered the market in 1996, the FDA approved its original label, which stated that iatrogenic addiction was “very rare” if opioids were legitimately used in the management of pain. In July 2001, to reflect the available scientific evidence, the label was modified to state that data were not available for establishing the true incidence of addiction in chronic-pain patients. The 2001 labeling also deleted the original statement that the delayed absorption of OxyContin was believed to reduce the abuse liability of the drug.19