[quote=FlyerInHi]Bring on the computers. Medicine is not a free market. Doctors have captive audience of not well educated patients. They charge accordingly.
Drug companies are shysters. Different pricing for the same drug at different dosage for different applications. Example proscar for prostate vs propecia for hair growth. Ban drug advertizing.[/quote]
Brian – I really do think you got duped into going to the infomercial lunch.
How much insurance do you think you have to have to sell something that is being put on someone’s head for a cosmetic purpose? Let’s say, for example, something destroys the active ingredient somewhere in the manufacturing cycle. Good heavens, someone’s hair doesn’t grow. What a catastrophe.
Now let’s say you sell a separate formulation having the same active ingredient for treating cancer. Let’s say you have the same manufacturing glitch – what is the potential downside? People dying. So you have to have a lot more testing, insurance, etc. This should be pretty easy to understand, even for you.
I have a question. Why do people hate drug companies? The public really doesn’t know what the drug companies charge but it is A LOT less than what is charged at the pharmacy. What they do know is what Walgreens or CVS charges (which can be a lot). But no one hates CVS or Walgreens – they don’t even come up on the radar. Has anyone noticed that the drug companies are slowly disappearing but there is a flipping CVS on every corner? End of rant. I like some drug companies much better than others – but I’ve never understood why drugstores never suffer the same criticism that drug companies do.
