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.
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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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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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do you think governments shouldn't make cost-benefit analyses when deciding how to spend money?
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he literally said “for-profit companies,” this is a complete non sequitur
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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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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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Of course, Insurance wearing the white hat was altruism or style selection, either.
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