Willy has it backwards, again. For DECADES, "lefties" have been trying to STRENGTHEN the laws and regulations regarding what drug companies and their drug reps ("detail men", now "detail fashion models" or "detail cheer leaders") can do to promote their products. "Righties" have tried to block such rules and regs. Righties want Drug Reps and doctors to be free to do what they want. The Prescription Drug Marketing act of 1987 did not address what "detail men" could do.
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It used to be that "detail men" had some sort of science or medical background, even if just a BS. Starting in the 1980s - 1990s (after Reagans Rx Drug Marketing Act of 1987), it was shown (data) that attractive young woman with perky personalities and other perky attributes made the best sales reps. Seriously: college cheer leaders had the right attitude and skills to "sell" and convince docs to Rx her company's products.
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Your football team only has 10 players, team equipment only provides sneakers and no cleats, ... Your drug is not as good as the competitor product, it causes harmful side effects ... "RAH! RAH! REE! Kick 'em in the knee! GooooOOOOOOOO DRUGS!" is exactly what a lot of drugs need. And it works.
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But Willy is right that prescribers can be generously enriched by drug companies for Rx-ing their products. And the companies keep track and know exactly who is Rx-ing what and in what quantities. Write more Rx's and get a free trip to Hawaii for "a medical conference." And maybe divorce your wife and marry the cute, young, cheery Drug Rep.
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If this is truly a concern of Willy, he should question the candidates on their positions and he will usually find that it is the "lefties" that want such kickbacks and other marketing schemes and manipulation stopped.
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Not specifically on Willy's topic, but the Dems have made progress getting Medicare to negotiate drug prices with pharma, NOT the Reps.
A doctor might be doing his job and trying to make you healthy. Or he might be selling you a poison because the company that wants him to sell that poison is giving that doctor kick backs and a luxury yacht. You have no earthly idea which it could be. Lefties managed to make the whole of modern medicine irrelevant just so a couple scumbag executives at big pharma companies could get even more obnoxiously rich.
And yet they will still say it's all a conspiracy theory. Even though everyone knows we just lived through an opioid epidemic. Big pharma figured out a way to sell people heroin in pill form, fuck up millions of people, kill who knows how many, and now the lawsuits are going to put Rite Aid into bankruptcy. All right in front of their faces for all to see, and they STILL keep getting booster shots and repeating this idiot "misinformation" line. Talk about a bunch of dumb fucks.
…and all the evidence pointing towards the obvious, there’s still dumbasses who trust the corrupt cretins in our bought and paid for health care system. They locked people in their homes and called life saving drugs “horse dewormer” just so Big Pharma could make a killing on vaccines that don’t work but does give people heart attacks. All to treat a virus that they funded and created.
Ok maybe not "continued life on this planet" but pretty fucking close. This whole thing has tarnished the idea of vaccines which are super important. but all ya all swallowed this hook, 70 feet of line and sinker!
GOOD JOB lefties, Goooood, good Job!
P.S. Fauci's funding of this insanity and subsequent coverup is the stuff of legend. He killed all those people, not TRUMP.
A doctor might be doing his job and trying to make you healthy. Or he might be selling you a poison because the company that wants him to sell that poison is giving that doctor kick backs and a luxury yacht. You have no earthly idea which it could be. Lefties managed to make the whole of modern medicine irrelevant just so a couple scumbag executives at big pharma companies could get even more obnoxiously rich.
And yet they will still say it's all a conspiracy theory. Even though everyone knows we just lived through an opioid epidemic. Big pharma figured out a way to sell people heroin in pill form, fuck up millions of people, kill who knows how many, and now the lawsuits are going to put Rite Aid into bankruptcy. All right in front of their faces for all to see, and they STILL keep getting booster shots and repeating this idiot "misinformation" line. Talk about a bunch of dumb fucks.
Willy has it backwards, again. For DECADES, "lefties" have been trying to STRENGTHEN the laws and regulations regarding what drug companies and their drug reps ("detail men", now "detail fashion models" or "detail cheer leaders") can do to promote their products. "Righties" have tried to block such rules and regs. Righties want Drug Reps and doctors to be free to do what they want. The Prescription Drug Marketing act of 1987 did not address what "detail men" could do.
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It used to be that "detail men" had some sort of science or medical background, even if just a BS. Starting in the 1980s - 1990s (after Reagans Rx Drug Marketing Act of 1987), it was shown (data) that attractive young woman with perky personalities and other perky attributes made the best sales reps. Seriously: college cheer leaders had the right attitude and skills to "sell" and convince docs to Rx her company's products.
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Your football team only has 10 players, team equipment only provides sneakers and no cleats, ... Your drug is not as good as the competitor product, it causes harmful side effects ... "RAH! RAH! REE! Kick 'em in the knee! GooooOOOOOOOO DRUGS!" is exactly what a lot of drugs need. And it works.
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But Willy is right that prescribers can be generously enriched by drug companies for Rx-ing their products. And the companies keep track and know exactly who is Rx-ing what and in what quantities. Write more Rx's and get a free trip to Hawaii for "a medical conference." And maybe divorce your wife and marry the cute, young, cheery Drug Rep.
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If this is truly a concern of Willy, he should question the candidates on their positions and he will usually find that it is the "lefties" that want such kickbacks and other marketing schemes and manipulation stopped.
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Not specifically on Willy's topic, but the Dems have made progress getting Medicare to negotiate drug prices with pharma, NOT the Reps.
A doctor might be doing his job and trying to make you healthy. Or he might be selling you a poison because the company that wants him to sell that poison is giving that doctor kick backs and a luxury yacht. You have no earthly idea which it could be. Lefties managed to make the whole of modern medicine irrelevant just so a couple scumbag executives at big pharma companies could get even more obnoxiously rich.
And yet they will still say it's all a conspiracy theory. Even though everyone knows we just lived through an opioid epidemic. Big pharma figured out a way to sell people heroin in pill form, fuck up millions of people, kill who knows how many, and now the lawsuits are going to put Rite Aid into bankruptcy. All right in front of their faces for all to see, and they STILL keep getting booster shots and repeating this idiot "misinformation" line. Talk about a bunch of dumb fucks.
Nobel winner Milton Friedman long ago argued that delays in drug innovation kill more people than are protected by the delays.
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However that does not excuse the government lying about the effectiveness of drugs, and especially not mandating their use. There should never be a vaccine mandate. Ever.
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Let people choose their own medical care.
Have you got a reference to Friedman's argument? I'd like to see the data behind it.
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Case by case, an "argument" can be made that it is the DRUG companies lie about the effectiveness of drugs. They provide PROCESSED data to the FDA and ask them to evaluate their conclusions and approve a drug for use. The drug companies hire experts to massage the data to make the strongest case to get approval.
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"If we leave out people who are left handed, the data looks better. Let's ask the FDA for approval for righties only and let the clinicians use it off-label for lefties."
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Am I remembering this case correctly? Claritin. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loratadine The DrugCo proved it was an antihistamine. Then, they proved that it was non-sedating at low doses. It got approved and they were allowed to advertise it as the only non-sedating antihistamine. The problem was that very few people stuck to the low dose and used higher doses (or multiple pills) to get relief of their symptoms ... but also experienced drowsiness. THAT was all on the DrugCo and their marketing dept, not the FDA.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/11/magazine/the-claritin-effect-prescription-for-profit.html?pagewanted=all' target=_blank class=green>http://web.archive.org/web/20150929130135/http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/11/magazine/the-claritin-effect-prescription-for-profit.html?pagewanted=all
The Claritin Effect; Prescription for Profit.
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"... my new allergist handed me a week's supply of Claritin, also made by Schering-Plough. Claritin was, and still is, the most frequently dispensed drug sample in the United States, part of the nearly $8 billion worth of free drug samples that pharmaceutical companies distribute to doctors annually. I had seen the ads on TV -- who hadn't? I figured I'd give it a try. ..."
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"So I went home and tried it. The little white pill was easy to swallow and had to be taken only once a day. There was just one problem: it didn't work. It didn't relieve my runny nose and red-rimmed, gunked-up eyes. When I told my allergist, he didn't seem particularly surprised. Only about 30 to 40 percent of his patients, he said, found the drug helpful. ..."
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"Claritin has been singled out as a prime example of greed by the American pharmaceutical industry, notably last summer by Al Gore during his presidential campaign, and there has been a constant stream of negative press about Schering-Plough's efforts to get the basic patent on Claritin extended beyond its 2002 expiration. ..."
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"When it was his turn to speak, Straus engaged in a little bureaucratic soft-shoe, complimenting the Schering team's presentations as ''a tough act to follow.'' Then he tried to demolish the heart of Schering's application. Straus didn't doubt that loratadine worked as an antihistamine, he said; he just doubted that it worked at the 10-milligram dose. In fact, at one point he claimed that ''10 milligrams is not very different than placebo clinically.'' The reason the dose was so low, he argued, is that evidence of sedation began to crop up at higher, more effective doses. ..."
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Read the rest yourself, if interested. It's pretty interesting.
Nobel winner Milton Friedman long ago argued that delays in drug innovation kill more people than are protected by the delays.
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However that does not excuse the government lying about the effectiveness of drugs, and especially not mandating their use. There should never be a vaccine mandate. Ever.
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Let people choose their own medical care.
The "liberalize the FDA" field is actually pretty huge.
Are you still getting boosted imp?