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Thread ID: 83225	2007-09-24 06:20:00	The price of medicine...	mabix (10146)	PC World Chat

Post ID	Timestamp	Content	User
594456	2007-09-24 20:36:00	Maybe the old aphorism, "There is nothing in this world that some man cannot make a little worse and a little cheaper. Those who consider price alone are that man's lawful prey." tends to colour perceptions?	R2x1 (4628)
594457	2007-09-25 01:56:00	I guess when your medications are free, you cannot complain at the cost or type. PJ	Poppa John (284)
594458	2007-09-25 02:06:00	I guess when your medications are free, you cannot complain at the cost or type. PJ.... unless they don't work as well as they used to...	johcar (6283)
594459	2007-09-25 03:53:00	.... unless they don't work as well as they used to... I haven't noticed any difference. I have been on Voltaren for 20 years +/-. PJ	Poppa John (284)
594460	2007-09-25 04:32:00	As a mid-fifties bloke on marginally more than the income level necessary to obtain all the benefits of the welfare state, I used to (last year) have to pay around $50 per visit to my GP and the regular drugs cache cost another $30, every three months. In the last year, the benevolent Dr Cullen has reduced this to $15 per visit and the drugs to $5! So at this point in time I am not going to complain. Mind you, with the majority of my meagre income going into his coffers by way way of direct and indirect taxation, he should be able to make like Australia and make it all free to all over the age where they should have to toil endlessly for the state. BTW, has anybody ever calculated the percentage of income that we get to keep after PAYE, GST, Road and Petrol Taxes, Alcohol and Tobacco taxes, Rates and anything else that gets squeezed out of our pay packets? Spendable income must be in the single digit percentages!:groan:	andy (473)
594461	2007-09-25 05:58:00	There are no evidence-based data to challenge this conclusion. Is this because there are no double-blind clinical trials to provide the data? Or is it because there have been clinical trials which are conclusive? And while a clinical trial might be useful in determining efficacy, there are far more things at play with drug therapy. For instance, SSRIs are not stunningly more effective than tricyclics in clinical trials - but in the real world the compliance is better because of a lower side effect profile. This means that outcomes are improved. Also, in the US, participants in clinical trials are often paid. In Europe this is usually not the case. This colours the data that clinical trials produce.	Deane F (8204)
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