Originally Posted by bbhero
Why are medications so expensive??? Several big reasons. But #1 amongst them is the involvement of third big parties able to pay far far more money than a individual person could ... Private insurance and govt insurance are a part of why prices are so high... Another reason is how much money it actually takes for research and development in production of new medication. It is a quite a lot rather often. Plus companies have to recoup their money in a rather short window after they get the necessary approvals. And remember.... Part of that money they make in that window... Is financing the next drug they hope to introduce to the market. . Which again..... Is not cheap.
And western allopathic medicine isn't targeted at fixing people...it's a poor business model...per Goldman Sachs.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/goldman-asks-is-curing-patients-a-sustainable-business-model.html
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"The potential to deliver 'one shot cures' is one of the most attractive aspects of gene therapy, genetically-engineered cell therapy and gene editing. However, such treatments offer a very different outlook with regard to recurring revenue versus chronic therapies," analyst Salveen Richter wrote in the note to clients Tuesday. "While this proposition carries tremendous value for patients and society, it could represent a challenge for genome medicine developers looking for sustained cash flow."
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Richter cited Gilead Sciences' treatments for hepatitis C, which achieved cure rates of more than 90 percent. The company's U.S. sales for these hepatitis C treatments peaked at $12.5 billion in 2015, but have been falling ever since. Goldman estimates the U.S. sales for these treatments will be less than $4 billion this year, according to a table in the report.
"GILD is a case in point, where the success of its hepatitis C franchise has gradually exhausted the available pool of treatable patients," the analyst wrote. "In the case of infectious diseases such as hepatitis C, curing existing patients also decreases the number of carriers able to transmit the virus to new patients, thus the incident pool also declines … Where an incident pool remains stable (eg, in cancer) the potential for a cure poses less risk to the sustainability of a franchise."
re the OP...I understand that there would be a need to have epipens around when you are challenging the immune system...but to have it as mandatory that you bring your own at your cost smells of something a little corrupt.
Couple of points per other posts...when I had Bell's Palsy, I was prescribed prednisone...put on kilos of water within days, and was looking for a train to jump under...that's BAD news.
re epinepherin and allergies
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4034215/
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Healthy volunteers practicing the learned techniques exhibited profound increases in the release of epinephrine, which in turn led to increased production of anti-inflammatory mediators and subsequent dampening of the proinflammatory cytokine response elicited by intravenous administration of bacterial endotoxin. This study could have important implications for the treatment of a variety of conditions associated with excessive or persistent inflammation, especially autoimmune diseases in which therapies that antagonize proinflammatory cytokines have shown great benefit.
20 minutes of Wim Hoff breathwork results in a 250% increase in epinepherin.
No, it's not going to save you from alyphalaxis, but there's more to it than is acknowledged by the pay per view medical system.