[lit-ideas] Re: Who's Crazy? We Are
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 15:37:50 -0400
> [Original Message]
> From: Robert Paul <robert.paul@xxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 6/8/2005 2:51:05 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Who's Crazy? We Are
>
> Andy Amago wrote:
>
> > Pharma makes it profitable for doctors to give out drugs. They actually
> > keep track of how many prescriptions doctors write and adjust their
> > marketing of the doctors accordingly. It's high pressure sales with
lots
> > of expensive freebies thrown in. It's why the drugs have to be so
> > expensive, since vacations, uh, seminars, are not cheap.
>
> I know you've got this thing for Big Pharma, but the clinic I go to
> doesn't even let drug reps in the door. And, in many cases in which
> doctors 'give out drugs,' they give them to people who've been cut off
> even from Medicaid. Of course these 'free drugs' run out; and of course
> those to whom they're given can hardly afford to demand prescriptions
> for them after they do, just because they've been seduced by TV
> commercials. A prescription, if you have no money or health insurance
> is like a right without a tail.
>
I would wonder where they get the free drugs if not from reps. I
appreciate the quotes around free, since somebody has to pay for the
freebies. The irony is the freebies make the drugs expensive; it's part of
the cost aside from pure gouging.
Andy
> Robert Paul
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