Why does healthcare in the US cost more than other parts of the world...

Why does healthcare in the US cost more than other parts of the world? Surely there should be a market niche for cheaper healthcare?

I'd appreciate any insight from people working in medicine.

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For the same reason people travel from all over the world to receive it
Because it's worth it

The real problem is that, under your current healthcare system, there is a profit motive to keep people sick on all levels of the healthcare industry except for the consumer. Drug companies, hospitals, and especially insurance companies make more money when the population is unhealthy. These companies, along with the food industry, are propping up a corrupt FDA. Whether or not you believe in a conspiracy of this nature, you can't deny a strong profit motive, as evidenced by Obama when he let insurance companies draft your comprehensive healthcare reform law.

Innovation ain't free.

Where do most of the worlds modern medicine breakthroughs come from?

Also why don't you just go to Mexico to have surgery? Perhaps it has something to do with quality.

actually americans are medical refugees in asia, europea, latin american

>Why does healthcare in the US cost more than other parts of the world?
(((They))) want to depopulate and demoralize us.

the innovation money is from public funds and tax $$


Cuba's Center of Molecular Immunology created Cimavax-EGF, a vaccine against lung cancer, made available to the public for a few years already. link. It does not prevent lung cancer, but helps your body to destroy existing cancer.

With the amount of money going into cancer research yearly in the U.S., why haven't we come up with new affordable methods of combating cancer?

popsci.com/science/article/2011-09/cuba-releases-worlds-first-lung-cancer-vaccine

Because the jews are finding more insidious ways of giving us cancer.

perhaps they are following the traditions of their eugenicist darwinist Anglo-Celtic masters?

Proof.. Not a blog about it either.

>Innovation ain't free.


ask yourself this:

how much does it cost to produce a:
-smartphone?
-pill?

how much cost of r&d goes into developing a:
-smartphone?
-pill?


how much is the cost of a cutting-edge :
-smartphone?
-pill?

if you think that cost of r&d and production of pills surpasses smartphones, then you are a special kind of retard

and cutting-edge smartphones are dirt cheap

and not to mention that public funds cover r&d of medicine, so medicine is cheating a bit

There's no simple asnwer. Parts of the system are for-profit, and have driven up prices, notably drug companies. Hospitals have to pass on the cost of insanely high insurance, because of lawsuits and unions. Doctors make less money, for the same reasons - malpractice insurance mostly, and the ACA drove down profits as well. The insurance companies have created an industry where $25 tabs of aspirin exist. There's an insured cost, and an uninsured cost. Then, add on top a layer of cost for treating illegal aliens and welfare patients - hospitals can't refuse treatment except in very specific scenarios.

Basically, the market doesn't drive prices, external forces like insurance, lawsuits, unions, and profit margins do.

Chemo makes the doctor $13,000. Per dose, so if your getting rchop or bcnu...chemo, they rake in around $50,000. Per patient! Look around that chemo lab at all the faces, then count how much money that lab is raking in. Compare that to the cost of a sure cure that costs about $100.00 per six months. Get the picture?

A smartphone is just a conglomeration of other technologies, a pill to combat a specific disease isn't going to be useful for combating other diseases most of the time.

What a retarded example Schlomo.

Lol. Its because its for profit. Why is the same healthcare 50% cheaper within the military? Because some jew isnt turning a profit. Some of you yanks are fucking retarded ay. The U.S. spends double per person on healthcare than the U.K., which has free healthcare. Also its hugely inflated because legaly the jews can only make 20% profit, so the more things cost, the bigger their profit is.

>pill is just a conglomeration of other technologies

pills come in derivative and prodrug forms, also metabolites, so your argument fails
a pill like aspirin can be repurposed for anticancer shit


so can phentformin, metformin and others that are well known

>take a CPU
>hmmm how can I use this for a mobile phone?

>take aspirin
>hmmm how can I use this for other medical issues?

exactly the same thing

lay off the petrol for a while

stop trying to kill my culture

#abolivesmatter

Health insurance means the people paying for medical procedures are not the same people who are deciding whether to get said procedures.

Malpractice law means that doctors will throw a battery of frankly unnecessary tests at you (which they get paid to perform) in order not to get sued if they somehow miss something.

people deciding procedures is based on coverage and approval by FDA

even if the procedure is the only curative treatment it will not be prescribed unless insurance and fda conditions are met

Lawyers.

The costs of all the crazy lawsuits that awarded extreme amounts of money have driven up the costs of health extremely.

Most people here don't know this, but the 2008 super hair boy and Democratic primary runner Senator John Edwards made his money suing hospitals for malpractice.

actually with the amount of fat unhealthy fucks like OP in this country, it's amazing that it is as cheap as it is

Malpractice law is a overhyped meme. negligence and incomptence is standard care. thats why people research doctors and clinics

The kike knows his shit

It's due to administration costs, a retarded patient population that feels entitled to clog up the system (metaphorically and physically), and 7+ years of training after college that goes into medical school while procuring debt.

If you do anything, don't touch a single penny from the Doctor's salary. The Jew is essentially spot on

Are you a Canadian using a proxy?

You realize that the chemo the doctors are administering for $13000 a dose cost them $12995 from their wholesale supplier right?

5 things:
1. Restricted access to generic drugs - helps drug companies do better, but...
2. Lowered commitment to prevention strategies - lol food lobbyists and fat acceptance
3. Tough laws - patient can sue docs too easily, so docs make sure of stuff which costs more of your $
4. Bureaucracy - complex insurance, bargaining system raising overhead
5. No universal care as baseline (sidenote: the bernie wing expects too much)

I thought Trump has said in the past that he supports single payer healthcare. Is that no longer true?

Localized monopolies and government subsidies resulting in providers being able to charge whatever they want and get away with it. Similar to the college tuition issue.

>oblivious to american medical refugee crisis

as a start, go across the border to mejico and see the countless gringo patients being treatedt in border clinics

also


FDA officials sneak off to Germany for the treatments they deny you

Back in 1987, Dr. Nieper let a man named Jeff Harsh interview him for a video documentary. After commenting that “President Reagan is a very nice man,” Dr. Nieper declared:

“You wouldn’t believe how many FDA officials or relatives or acquaintances of FDA officials come to see me as patients in Hanover. You wouldn’t believe this — or directors of the American Medical Association (AMA), or American Cancer Society (ACS), or the presidents of orthodox cancer institutes. That’s the fact.”

Well, that’s America’s cancer establishment for you.

FDA officials and their colleagues want you to submit to disfiguring surgery, poisonous chemo, and burning radiation when you get cancer. But when they get cancer — well, that’s different! They go to Germany to get rid of their cancer. For themselves, they prefer treatments that are more effective and don’t have any side effects.

yes, goyim, we only take $5 to "cure" you

...Cancer is a very lucrative industry for the medical community. Not just chemotherapy but it's great for getting big donations for cancer institutes .. yeah .. hey .. we're busy curing cancer ... haha .. sure we are .. gib moar money plox

how is shekelcare in israel? do you have to pay?

The costs of that is from free loaders (non-insurerd and people that just refuse to pay) and the US GOVERNMENT (Medicare).

The US Government is the #1 payer of medical bills in the US, through Medicare. They only pay 60% to 80% of the actual costs for the proceedures being performed. This forces medical service providers to have to overcharge people paying through means other than Medicare to make up the difference.

In addition, health care providers in the US cannot refuse service to people who cannot pay. These "free loarders" cost by law cannot be passed on to Medicare, so they also get passed along to the people that actually pay via a means other than Medicare.

You want to lower costs, make it illegal for the US government to pay any bill for anyone that is not a federal employee or their immediate family and dependants. This would stop Medicare under paying for services. Of course, this cannot happen, because the richest voting block, seniors, don't want to pay for health care services, and that's why it exists in the first place. If 18-25 year olds showed up at EVERY opportunity to vote and the 55+ year olds stayed home and ignored voting, we wouldn't hage Medicare, we'd have Educare, which would pay most students tuition, but at the cost of 60% to 80% of the actual tuition costs, and those few students paying for their own costs would get the bill for the rest.

its free...but its also soviet gulag as fuck and has been getting worse in the last decade. take for instance the fact that nurses purposefully drop needles on the floor and then inject the contaminated needle it to the patient.

our treatments are based off of FDA, so if you want cutting-edge non-invasive, modern stuff, you are shit out of luck here

i thought it was a two tier system and you could pay to get better care?

Hell, he said that while he was running for president. He's all for one payer healthcare, but he recognizes that there is zero chance of that getting through congress. That's why he wants to repeal AND REPLACE Obamacare with something not designed to fail.

but the replacement i thought now is supposed to be health savings accounts not single payer?

Last I heard. But we will see what happens when the rubber meets the road.

Freemarket capitalism. Profit motive. Debases the human body and ignores the oath. You don't have cold weather so nobody gives a shit about anybody else. And zionism

That's not it. A lot of states have done medical malpractice tort (lawsuit) reform, and costs are still high. Look at south Texas - Texas did med-mal a long time ago, but medical expenses in places like Brownsville and McAllen and Laredo are insane.

What is health savings, exactly?

people can choose to pay extra monthly for "platinum care" within their insurance and can also opt for private insurance, but basic insurance is provided to all. the platinum care doesnt offer much in terms of quality of care

there are only 3-4 decent hospitals in israel, the rest are pretty much butcher shops

Get the new muffler package goyim

>have high deductible plan
>go to pharmacy to pick up Jublia script
>"that'll be $200."
>fuck that
>"Isn't it covered under my plan having met the deductible?"
>"it's originally over $1k-"
Stopped there, walked away in disgust. Usually I'll believe whatever the big pharmacy JOOZ tell me but this shit is outrageously expensive

A scam. Health-savings account (HSA) schemes are basically a way for companies and administrators to rake in fees while employers and other agencies offload medical costs to individuals.

What will happen with any HSA plan is that a lot of people won't have sufficient funds to fund an HSA, which means that the government will step in and voucherize/subsidize them.

Unlike the claims by HSA proponents, this doesn't do anything to "control medical costs," any more than the federally-backed student loan system managed to reduce education expenses in the US.

It's basically a backdoor way of feeding public money to insurance companies and the medical industry, as opposed to the frontdoor way we use now.

You pay money into an account that is tax deductible as long as you use the money for health-related expenses.

I thought under a lot of the plans if you don't give enough money to your savings account they can deny you insurance.

>Jublia

Lol. Efinaconazole (look it up) is not even effective. It's a fucking scam. You'd get better results from soaking the affected area in black tea for a half-hour per day for a couple weeks.

because america is literally run by big corporations and they can do whatever they want

"JUBLIA is for use on nails and surrounding skin only. Do not use JUBLIA in your mouth, eyes, or vagina. Use it exactly as instructed by your doctor."
Who the fuck would accidentally use a topical antifungal in their vagina?

Medical Marijuana would clean up a good portion of this mess. Pretty cheap forva drug with so many uses

>people working in medicine
>on Sup Forums
kek good luck getting anything beyond a few murses.

Yeah, which puts those cases directly back on the public dole.

The fundamental problem with all these individualized schemes is that the US is a poorer country at an individual level than policy-makers seem to think. Half the people out there don't have $500 in disposable cash. A large chunk of people don't have bank accounts.

Asking people to put thousands into some "account" that they can only use for one purpose when they barely have hundreds in their "general fund" to begin with is not going to work.

The only way to finance these things is for the government to step in an inject funds, and at that point we're back into something that looks a lot like Obamacare anyway, so what's the point of the massive economic disruption it would take to retool the system?

HSAs are not a serious response to the health care problems in the US.

I mean I voted Trump but I'm a NEET and I'm terrified of having no insurance when my parents die.

the irony is that the cancer cure wont be a new drug, but a few repurposed old drugs that have been used to treat other conditions...and the medical industrial complex has been quite aware of this for a very long time

Because that's what happen when you make healthcare mandatory and force people to suscribe at a private insurance company whose goal is to make money, no the help sick people.

The same shit happened here, we pay between 300 and 1000$ a month for healthcare and there is barely anything covered up.

Went to the doctor yesterday, got a complete physical, cost me $25.
I see no problem here.
Of course, I'm a responsible adult, with an education, a good job, and employer paid insurance.
It all boils down to personal responsibility.

Health Insurance has to cover our weakest members, just as free speech protections must cover our most controversial speech.

You're lucky and I hope it stays like that in burgerland. Here it was exactly like that the first couple of years they made it mandatory: it was cheap, tons of things were covered up.

Now it's like an extra couple of hundreds $ of taxes to pay every month with pretty much nothing covered even if you are responsible and in good health: there will always be selfish irresponsible morons who *will* fuck the system up for everybody else.

Medical person working for our non-country gobmint

One of your big reasons is you don't regulate access to your market and don't negotiate prices, well, you got the FDA but that's bogus. They trot along with whatever industry says they should measure as a true proof of safety and once that's done they're good to go and set whatever price they want. Here, we're a non-country with a tiny market but we STILL manage to get our drug prices way lower than you burgers. Despite having so many less people to sell it to. Think about it for a minute.

Second, you don't have proper state-organized healthcare. Some of you just go "nooooo ebil socialism" the moment it says state-something but opportunity costs can be driven down by having a centralized organization of some form. Our health care is in part funded directly but also through taxes, both on industry and individuals.

Third, you sue your doctors for just about any perceived slight because your judges are retarded. Health care is never a zero risk affair, even taking a fucking paracetamol or aspirin could kill you if you are really really unlucky, but still you sort of expect that and act like entitled brats when something goes wrong, hoping to make fat cash. This drives insurance that doctors have to take through the roof and in the end they make you pay again for it. Back when I was still practicing, my insurance for my license costed 200 a year. I have no idea of prices in the US but certainly not that low.

cost of the degree.


Albert takes a look at his foot and say wow my foot itches, there is a crust, and some of the skin is peeling off with a red colored skin underneath. this is probably athletes foot so i will go and buy the medicine with the active ingredient known to cure it at the store.

Glover says no Albert, this is a dangerous tool, deservingly restricted from the public. In order to purchase this medicine you will have to have doctor Silverstien prescribe it for you.

In order for dr. silverstien to do such a function he is required by law to get at least 8 years of full time education out of pocket. this financial risk/investment prevents most people from pursuing this certification, keeping it scarce.

Albert has to pay dr. silverstien a fee for him to give Albert the paper. There is a hefty fee attached to the paper and the session with dr. Silverstien for him to cover the cost of his own immense student loan debt. This paper grants Albert permission to treat an ailment he most likely would have been able to figure out on his own, or determined after a short session using the internet.

The FDA creates these restrictions under the guise of protection of the citizen from himself, in order to drive up the cost of the medicine under pressure from the pharmaceutical companies. If another manufacturer can come in and make the same medicine and provide it to the people, it can lower the price of the medicine as a result of competition. With no competition, the pharmaceutical company can charge whatever price it determines for the medicine which is released in an artificially controlled amount (perscriptions)

Enjoy your schizophenia and NEET epidemic

the difference is a smart phone is literally just technology already fully developed from other areas and put into a single package
touch screens, cell phones, pocket sized computers, built in cameras, wireless web browsing, etc., none of that is new
developing a new pill can't just take some preexisting pill, put it inside their new pill, and have it suddenly do something else
aspirin will never be used to track down and kill cancerous cells because aspirin does not track down and kill cancerous cells, something new would need to be developed that does do that

Someone retarded with a yeast infection.

>Why does healthcare in the US cost more than other parts of the world?

Because it was consolidated by publically traded companies whose first priority is to their shareholders profits.

Healthcare in america isn't run by doctors, it is run by greed.

>Discusses a systemic problem by bringing up an individual anecdote

This is Baby Boomer-tier analysis, user. We're talking about the nature of the system as a whole.

>but we STILL manage to get our drug prices way lower than you burgers

The US government's biggest healthcare program (Medicaid) is banned by law from negotiating drug prices with pharma companies.

The pharma industry has a big lobby in Washington DC, and pharma companies donate a lot of money to politicians.

We had a chance to solve some of this in the 00's when Bush passed Medicare Part D (prescription drug coverage), but he also banned the government from negotiating prices.

And then again with Obamacare, but... same thing happened.

well shit, really hate to hear that... my family is from Switzerland

>28 years old
>NEET
>got free healthcare
>about go to the dentist on Friday (free)
>about go to the hospital and get all my shit checked out (free)

covering my bases in case Trump really does ax Obamacare

I don't know how your pharmacies are and how well they know their shit but here we can give quite a bunch of stuff. Or mix it up ourselves. The pharmacist himself is free, the drug is the only thing that costs so a lot of people go through the pharmacist first, try something to see if it leaves, which keeps the people with just basic silly things like coughs and colds away from the doctors.

>the innovation money is from public funds and tax $$


you fucking idiot

>In fact, two decades of reliable analyses by academia and government, assessed using a variety of methodological approaches,
consistently demonstrate that 67 percent to 97 percent of drug development is conducted by the
private sector.

csdd.tufts.edu/files/uploads/PubPrivPaper2015.pdf

How can anyone with a straight face claim that the public funds it all? How on earth can you look to cuba as the leading country on drug design and development?

>With the amount of money going into cancer research yearly in the U.S., why haven't we come up with new affordable methods of combating cancer?
Have you seen survival rates? Take your chances elswhere then you fucking idiot


Im not defending the stupid system they have going on there, im calling you a fucking idiot who thinks they dont produce the best in the world and thinks cuba is better

American taxes are actually low enough that I'd save money paying for premium healthcare down there than I do now footing the bill for deadbeats... so in a way it's actually cheaper.

>banned by law from negotiating drug prices
Sorry that is the most retarded thing I heard all week.

Bernie has been beating down on this drug price thing for a long time, maybe Trump will do something about it though, but doubt it.

>Why does healthcare in the US cost more than other parts of the world?
Because we don't have government bureaucrats deciding on how little to pay doctors and how long to make people wait to get care. It's also the reason why the best doctors from from foreign countries immigrate here LEGALLY.

We pay our doctors double what any other country does, but most of the costs here are for prescriptions and specialty "procedures" billed at a higher and separate rate than a half hour visit.

You mean for the treatment companies.

Doctor needs that money to pay off loans and make up for a decade and a half of lost salaries.

>aspirin
specific dose aspirin or other NSAIDS have been and are being used to treat cancer

> new developing a new pill can't just take some preexisting pill
please explain a cheap anti-bacterial drug from the 50s repurposed to treat cancer now costing $5,000 in US and only $5 in an undisclosed neighboring country

I disagree. Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) are not a scam and do infact help control health care cost inflation by making the consumer of health care goods and services (HCGS) more aware of what they are spending for said health care goods and services.

First HSAs only work to control HCGS when paired with a high deductible health plan (HDHP). The HDHP, is only used for high cost HCGS (surgeries, etc) that most of the general population rarely use. The smaller less costly services (doctors visits, Rx drugs, etc) that are more frequently utilized are paid for by an HSA.

The HSA is funded by an employee through a pre-tax salary reduction, just like a Flexible Spending Account (FSA). What makes HSAs better than FSAs is that HSAs have no cap on how much can be held in them, HSAs are employee owned and can travel from employer to employer if you change jobs, HSAs accumulate tax free investment income.

When you have the consumer of HCGS using there own money to buy said HCGS (not only paying a portion of the cost through insurance) the consumer has more incentive to ask about the price, necessity of the HCGS. This allows the consumer to act as a traditional consumer in a free market, ie. they may choose to generic drugs since they are cheaper. This makes drug companies and physicians compete more against eachother for the lowest prices to attract the most consumers. Overall The cost of HCGS would be increasing at a slower rate or even decreasing.

With the absence of insurance, the cost of cosmetic surgery has a actually gone down in the past 10ish years, due to the free maket.

source: I study Risk Management and Insurace, in a class about employee benefits now, can provide more sources if you like.

I am intrigued by your point of government subsidizing HSAs though, I honestly never thought about that before. It is harder for poor and really sick people to correctly use HSAs, you bring up a good point.

For anything serious, America has the best care. Come see the quality of care in socialised systems and you will understand. Free health care is only good for minor ailments you would otherwise get ripped off in the USA for.

>Doctor needs
the only thing Doctor needs is to keep the Oath, if the doctor isnt interested in the Oath, then maybe they should have chosen the used car salesmen career path?

> ignores the oath

The Hippocratic Oath, the core guidance to a physician’s conduct, states famously: “Do no harm.”

In the case of suppressed treatments (cryoimmunology, 3-Bromopyruvate etc..), perhaps the Hippocratic Oath has to be interpreted differently. It is possible to do harm by inaction. In the case of a patient suffering with cancer who is presented with the possibility of an agent like 3BP, which has few side effects, perhaps doctors ought to consider that they may be doing harm to their patients by blocking access to this medicine.

If you have insurance that doctors visit did not actually cost $25. It cost YOU $25, probably your co-pay, but the whole cost of the visit was probably %80 subsidized by your insurance.

treating =/= curing/ fighting against/ preventing

>no photodynamic therapy
>no hyperthermia treatments
>no cryoimmunotherapy
>no 3BP
>America has the best care

social China offers these treatments tho

not gonna lecture you, but there are literally 100s of such existing drugs to treat and even cure late-stage cancer

2014 Repurposing of Metformin and Aspirin by Targeting AMPK-mTOR and Inflammation for Pancreatic Cancer Prevention and Treatment

The combination of metformin and aspirin will provide additive and possibly synergistic effects for the prevention and treatment of pancreatic cancer.


cancerpreventionresearch.aacrjournals.org/content/7/4/388.short

do the research

Yeah and Catnip has been used as an antibiotic. There are better and more effective treatments out there that get the priority use because you don't piss around with shit like cancer, you get that shit nuked quickly or you get pumped full of antineoplastons/blasted with proton beam therapy. Aspirin/Heparin/Warfarin are for blood thinning, any cancer magic they have can be put in le trash can for a while.

yeahnah

clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/results?term=Aspirin cancer

even metformin is given to every cancer patient in germany


do your research

Thanks for that link, good read.
My dad died of pancreatic adenocarcinoma this year, pretty much all his oncologist used was Gemzar and Abraxine. 18 months from diagnosis to death.
Only recently found out about the links between aspirin and curcumin on pancreatic CA from doing my own research.
His oncologist pretty much shrugged off any alternative therapies...

No no, we use Oxypalatin now shhhhh.

> Our doctors are 2x better than anybody else's
> Our healthcare is also 5-8x more expensive than anybody else's for the same things, but disregard that

Freedom Isn't Free

Nothing is free, but it would be nice if healthcare of all things were cheaper, I have relatives who are doctors making $600,000+ a year. Now doctors are hardworking and productive members of society, but do you ever wonder if things get a little too ridiculous and excessive?

>Nothing is free
Ur mum is ;^)

sorry to hear
sadly, the medical field continues with unrelenting archaic authoritarianism from the eugenicist slave-era, millions die directly from this oppressive medical regime


here is a story of a guy who successfully fought his stubborn oppressors
virtualtrials.com/surviveben.cfm


there is also a movement to provide freedom to survive:
righttotry.org

Herpes is for life

Where are those crazy prices coming from? My mom did the whole cancer treatment for $3,000. Still alive a decade later, so it went well. It's not supposed to cost that much you know

Healthcare in the USA is not expensive everywhere. There have been free market solutions some services similar to Netflix where you pay a sub and a GP that does house calls on the cheap with basic services attached (broken arms staples etc.). Real problem is socialized medicine. Medicare and Medicaid and now Obamacare make it expensive for folks who have no market in their area. Europe already has felt the crunch of socialized medicine especially the UK where they increasingly offer poorer service and let droves of people suffer. These systems are propped up only because other areas of the globe can continue to research and offer new drugs.

Companies who produce smartphones are just as rich, often richer. To compare two completely different industries
disregards scores of variable.

hey Sup Forums
how's it feel to know the cure for cancer has been developed in 2007? And might (if we're lucky) be available for commercial use within 0 years?

photodynamic therapy and photo induced drug delivery from 1960s.

give it 200 years and these 2 methodologies will be a major addition to radiation and chemo.


youtube.com/watch?v=Ux5QG0eqFqQ&feature=related

youtube.com/watch?v=G_p7TAp2WGg&feature=related

tl;dw
gold nanoparticles fitted with engineered antibodies bind to the corrupted protein tags of a cancer cell. The patient lies on a table and is blasted with radio waves, making the concentrations of gold nanoparticles in the cancer cell heat up and slowly disintegrate. After a few weekly treatments you're cancer free. it's like smart-bomb chemo, and it detects cancer by the one of the few things ALL species of cancer have in common; their protein tags


These two videos have follow ups to the 60 minute special above

youtube.com/watch?v=6AOv-YL8_kE&feature=related
youtube.com/watch?v=wIq4xcq2Ojo&feature=related

The Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development (Tufts CSDD) announced its estimate of drug development costs of $2.87 billion dollars in a recent paper by DiMasi et al.

However, last year, the CEO of GlaxoSmithKline, Andrew Witty, called the pharmaceutical industry's previous common estimate of a $1 billion cost to develop a drug a "myth," adding: "this is used by the industry to justify exorbitant prices." Tufts’ report enhances this myth almost threefold.

The study assumes zero funding from public agencies yet a 2011 study published in the New England Journal of Medicine shows that public funds contributed to the discovery of up to 21.2% of all drugs involved in new-drug applications approved from 1990 through 2007.

The medical charity claims that new drugs can be developed for as little as $50m, or up to $186m if the cost of failed programs is also taken into account, citing figures from the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi).

The Tufts affair highlights serious and growing evidence of conflict between academic integrity and financial interests in North America universities. Pharmaceutical funding was responsible for the creation of the Tufts CSDD, and Peter Dolan (the former CEO of Bristol Myers-Squibb) is on the CSDD’s Board of Trustees.

Already the unsupported claims by the Tufts CSDD has provided pretext for pharmaceutical companies to defend high monopoly drug prices. In response to a New York Times Op Ed on high medicine prices (Jan. 15, 2015), John J. Castellani, the president of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers Association (PhRMA), used the report to defend cancer drug prices, which climb well over $100,000 per patient, per year.

top jej schlomo
Even stage I trials are expensive.
Stage III human trials (and the vast majority of drug discoveries don't even make it here and the money was wasted) cost into the hundreds of millions, and it can be decades before they are truly complete.


One smartphone is fundamentally more or less the same as the last model.
A "pill" takes hundreds of millions of dollars to discover and prove it is both safe and efficacious