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    1. 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. 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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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 Jun 2019
      Replying to @JamesSurowiecki

      I think cost-benefit decisions should be governed by democratic decision-making rather than rent-seeking. Which might explain why nations with universal healthcare manage to achieve better outcomes at a far lower cost than USA.

      4:04 PM - 6 Jun 2019
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        2. James Surowiecki‏Verified account @JamesSurowiecki 6 Jun 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Sure, but the implication of your tweet is that a not-for-profit entity would have made a different decision about whether to invest in verifying if Enbrel really reduces the risk of Alzheimer's. (Otherwise, why would this story illustrate the dangers of for-profit healthcare?)

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

          But the National Health Service's model for valuing pharmaceuticals, for instance, would lead to less investment in new drugs, and things like trials for drugs like Enbrel, because they use a relatively low QALY measure.

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        2. Dan Davies‏ @dsquareddigest 6 Jun 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet @JamesSurowiecki

          Cost benefit decisions are fundamentally factual and so should be governed by science. We have exactly this problem in the UK whenever the National Institute for Clinical Excellence decides not to fund a cancer treatment with a big newspaper fanbase.

          1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
        3. James Surowiecki‏Verified account @JamesSurowiecki 6 Jun 2019
          Replying to @dsquareddigest @HeerJeet

          But the value attached to a QALY - which determines the "benefit" part of "cost benefit decisions" - is inherently a political/social, rather than factual, decision.

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        2. Right of Left‏ @RightOfLeft_TX 6 Jun 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet @JamesSurowiecki

          We should vote on what cereal you eat every morning, too. ... Or just let people choose for themselves in a free, not coercive market.

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        3. Right of Left‏ @RightOfLeft_TX 6 Jun 2019
          Replying to @RightOfLeft_TX @HeerJeet @JamesSurowiecki

          ...And...how does concentrating more power in central government lead to less rent seeking? Instead of private companies rent seeking, you simply absorb the rent seekers and rent seeking behavior into the government itself.

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