Originally Posted by
alex1921
Just few observations.
Gilead created a med to treat HepC. Was it cheap? Nope. Was it cheaper than having people get liver cirrhosis and what ever follows that? Countless hospitalizations, visits to docs, labs and eventually a liver transplant? Yeah much much cheaper. Just a little thought on how to look at prices of meds.
Second, opioid crisis. I love how the government comes hard on Pharma and docs etc because of it. Well somehow they forget that it was them who said that pain is a vital sign and nobody in the hospital should have any pain. Zero, nada. They started showing patients a smiley to sad face chart with questions to grade their pain form 0-10. If you said anything above 6 or so - boom opiates. So what did they expect, Tylenol would take care of that? Of course everybody was loaded with opiates to keep the patients and the government happy. Why you may ask. Well few years back they spine surgeons were told if their patients report post op pain, medicare wouldn't reimburse for the hospitalization.