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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 Jun 2019

    Jeet Heer Retweeted Amee Vanderpool

    Putting for-profit companies in charge of health-care decisions seems like not a bright idea, tbh.https://twitter.com/girlsreallyrule/status/1136244303192346626 …

    Jeet Heer added,

    Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule
    Pfizer discovered hundreds of thousands of insurance claims that rheumatoid arthritis drug Enbrel appeared to reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease by 64%. But verifying it would have been costly, so Pfizer dropped it and refused to make the data public. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/pfizer-had-clues-its-blockbuster-drug-could-prevent-alzheimers-why-didnt-it-tell-the-world/2019/06/04/9092e08a-7a61-11e9-8bb7-0fc796cf2ec0_story.html?utm_term=.0aedd29a572f …
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      2. Schnorkles O'Bork‏ @Schnorkles 6 Jun 2019
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        I'm like the last person alive that wants to defend Pfizer, but putting journalists in charge of understanding how clinical trials work and what this data looks like or doesn't look like is not a bright idea.

        1 reply 1 retweet 2 likes
      3. Schnorkles O'Bork‏ @Schnorkles 6 Jun 2019
        Replying to @Schnorkles @HeerJeet

        We've cured every single disease possible in mice, and multiple pharma companies were convinced that anti-oxidants were a miracle drug until *gong* stage 3 clinical trials

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      2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 Jun 2019
        Replying to @HmmInterdasting

        Yes. Nations with government run health care have better outcomes (lower infant mortality, higher life expectancy) at a lower cost than USA because parasitic insurance firms not part of equation.

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      2. James Surowiecki‏Verified account @JamesSurowiecki 6 Jun 2019
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        do you think governments shouldn't make cost-benefit analyses when deciding how to spend money?

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      3. ye olde farb‏ @codfarlo 6 Jun 2019
        Replying to @JamesSurowiecki @HeerJeet

        he literally said “for-profit companies,” this is a complete non sequitur

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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      1. Harald‏ @equalitus 6 Jun 2019
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        The for-profit factor is all about quantitative degree of profits. If hypothetically speaking, profits in medical products were capped at 1%, the profit margin or profit rate would be very much a majority profitability result of aggregate utility.

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      1. John Limouze‏ @johnlimouze 6 Jun 2019
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        John Limouze Retweeted Matthew Herper

        https://twitter.com/matthewherper/status/1136275709821882375?s=21 …

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        Matthew HerperVerified account @matthewherper
        Replying to @girlsreallyrule
        There were also, as the story doesn't make clear, a lot of reasons to believe that this wouldn't pan out. Insurance data are likely to show biases. See: https://twitter.com/peterbachmd/status/1136272297139064834 …
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      1. IrrevLyn is wearing a Bast-damned mask & BLM!  😷 😾‏ @Reverend_Lyn 6 Jun 2019
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        We've only allowed healthcare to be a for-profit venture since the 70s. People's satisfaction with outcomes doesn't seem to have kept pace with innovation. Both stress and anxiety over cost deter people from seeking care in part because of predatory billing practices.

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      1. Sci-isms‏ @MercuryTimes 10 Jun 2019
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        Of course, Insurance wearing the white hat was altruism or style selection, either.

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