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Neurontin for Everything - 2/15/2009 9:29:49 PM

Hippiekinkster

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A friend posted this on another site where I started a rant about dishonest doctors, and How I am coming to view many of them as being about as honest as used car salesmen or mortgage brokers.
http://books.google.com/books?id=npjUj83hFZgC&pg=PA212&lpg=PA212&dq=neurontin+for+everything&source=web&ots=CZbcq2foKP&sig=mWnVLHyODtBpMUN8RvlK-RXR7GU&hl=en&ei=Zy2YSeKGA4-Etge10KmgCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=2&ct=result#PPA216,M1

This is what those who argue for keeping the health care status quo. They are arguing for bribes, cover-ups, patients being used as lab rats, patient deaths, allowing companies to conduct their own research on safety and efficacy, and, finally, allowing the FDA to be peopled by drug industry execs.

I say single-payer is a good first step. That gets the insurance companies out of the doctor-patient relationship. The next step is to get drug company marketers out of the exam rooms.

That's why I signed the petition to support single payer health care:
http://www.democrats.com/single-payer-petition?cid=ZGVtczQ4MTQ0MWRlbXM=

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RE: Neurontin for Everything - 2/20/2009 4:37:34 PM

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I knew about the Neurontin scandal already. It's happened with other drugs as well; pharmaceutical companies illegally promote the use of a drug for purposes that haven't been approved. As more of these cases are exposed, I hope that this crap will be cracked down on, since we have a new administration that actually thinks federal agencies like the FDA should do the jobs they were commissioned for, rather than running smoke screens for the people they're supposed to oversee.

I'm not as damning of the physicians, though. They are victims of in a sense, fed misinformation by the pharmaceutical firms, although you could argue that the docs should have done their homework better.

Getting the drug company marketers under control is a first step. The single payer issue is much more complex, and won't happen anytime soon, if it ever does. It doesn't really get the insurance companies out of the doctor-patient relationship, because there will always be an insurer, but it would solve a lot of other problems. Examples: getting employers out of the health insurance business and reducing their costs; drastically reducing administrative costs; and stopping the wasteful "cherry-picking" by insurance companies who spend huge amounts of money on marketing, trying to get only the healthiest patients in their plans, and trying to avoid people who are more likely to actually need health care.

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RE: Neurontin for Everything - 2/20/2009 9:50:46 PM

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I don't look at them as used car salesmen. More like glorified auto mechanics.

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