Re: Big Pharm Capitalism Wins » jono_in_adelaide

Posted by SLS on December 17, 2012, at 6:13:51

In reply to Re: Big Pharm Capitalism Wins, posted by jono_in_adelaide on December 17, 2012, at 0:37:59

> Try and think how many world changing drugs we use today that were developed in the Soviet Union or Warsaw Pact, where all research and development of drugs (as well as sales and marketing) were state controlled.
>
> I think you'd find that the answerr is none.
>
> Yet in the period the USSR existed, the Western, profit motivated drug industry revolutionised medicine, starting with insulin and Vitamin b12, to sulphanilamide and antibiotics, and chlorpromazine and antidepressants and steroids and beta blockers, and cholestorol meds and diuretics, the list goes on. For all the capitalist systems failings, it works.
Capitalism is worst form of socioeconomic system - except for all of the others.
:-)

- Scott
Some see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.
- George Bernard Shaw

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