Reasons why Drugs are expensive

Yesterday ProfG suggested that pharma are correct to charge you loads of money for your treatments....this is because its greases the wheels of the economy.

This led to a few discussions in the lab and opinion was polisarised about the value of high drug prices....well say polarised it was ProfG verses the Rest.

Hey Ho he gets the pharma jollies and we don't:-). 

However, was he throwing us a curve ball to get us thinking?

Don't we know that only pharma can afford the costs to develop drugs? The boffins have created such hurdles for pharma to jump over that the boffins can't do it anylonger. 
  
Was ProfG throwing a spoke in the repurposing wheel?

Repurposing the academic way will have an uphill battle to climb to actually deliver something worthwhile, but if we just sit back and do nothing...this is what you will get and that is nothing!

This because UK Plc will not be able to afford it, if the fat cats get their way. 

They don't care about the poor old duck when making the pharma foie, it's the greenbacks that drive their cogs, not people's health.


In this regard a commenter a posted a link to this article. You may want to read it.

Four Reasons Drugs Are Expensive, Of Which Two Are False (CLICK)

This is an article in Forbes by Jack Scannell. It is very long at 10,000   wordsso grab yourselve a cup of tea and take your time reading this article.

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