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Should Scotland be an Independent Country?

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Pharmaceuticals are something which we British are quite good at, for the time being. I worked for 6 years at one of the big boys and saw large chunks of the business being relocated to China and India so not for much longer probably.

It takes years to get a new drug to market, years of testing on animals, human volunteers and aliens. After all that effort most of these drugs don't make it to market so when one does you can see why they want to sell it for as much as they are allowed/can get away with. This is their business model, if you clamp down on how much they can charge, the research will suffer and they will relocate.
 
stopmeandslapme said:
Pharmaceuticals are something which we British are quite good at, for the time being. I worked for 6 years at one of the big boys and saw large chunks of the business being relocated to China and India so not for much longer probably.

It takes years to get a new drug to market, years of testing on animals, human volunteers and aliens. After all that effort most of these drugs don't make it to market so when one does you can see why they want to sell it for as much as they are allowed/can get away with. This is their business model, if you clamp down on how much they can charge, the research will suffer and they will relocate.
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Some **** should tell them MD will test any drug for free, that should cut the costs. :)
 
I 've paid at least 3k in pmi premiums and I've never needed to use it.

I'd rather it was used by the nhs, not sitting in prudential bank account.
 
stopmeandslapme said:
Pharmaceuticals are something which we British are quite good at, for the time being. I worked for 6 years at one of the big boys and saw large chunks of the business being relocated to China and India so not for much longer probably.

It takes years to get a new drug to market, years of testing on animals, human volunteers and aliens. After all that effort most of these drugs don't make it to market so when one does you can see why they want to sell it for as much as they are allowed/can get away with. This is their business model, if you clamp down on how much they can charge, the research will suffer and they will relocate.
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I disagree.

Lots of drugs are found through mistakes or luck and most of them do something completely different to what they were originally designed for.

Then theres the fact that most of them come with wide ranging side effects ranging from addiction to fatalities.
 
MD 20/20 said:
I disagree.

Lots of drugs are found through mistakes or luck and most of them do something completely different to what they were originally designed for.

Then theres the fact that most of them come with wide ranging side effects ranging from addiction to fatalities.
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^^^^^^^^
That's true <ok>
 
pud said:
Man a is an oap

Man b is a fit 30 years old

A pays nowt each month

B pays an additional 20 quid a month

For years both only use gp n some out patient treatment

One month a falls n rips his ligaments, b tears his cartilage playing football. Both need key hole surgery.

A gets his treatment on nhs.
B gets his treatment done privately

Both benefit from bs , and others, additional contributions which have been invested in nhs services whilst creating enough money to use private consultants.

Like a cash plan but only one pays.

Not everyone paying the additional would need treatment.
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So instead of paying PHI you would pay the NHS and if you need treatment go private?

I wouldn't have a problem with that. The PHI firms and the private health care might though.
 
InnocentAldo said:
So instead of paying PHI you would pay the NHS and if you need treatment go private?

I wouldn't have a problem with that. The PHI firms and the private health care might though.
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Yeah...

They still have a massive business for those who do want to pay more for the full pmi service...
 
MD 20/20 said:
I disagree.

Lots of drugs are found through mistakes or luck and most of them do something completely different to what they were originally designed for.

Then theres the fact that most of them come with wide ranging side effects ranging from addiction to fatalities.
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Not sure what you are disagreeing with? Past mistakes are why it takes so many years of testing to bring a new drug to market.
 
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