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BrotherIvan

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14. Cancer treatments are a racket of epic proportions

Tue Apr 30, 2013, 11:00 AM

Apr 2013

This article has a false premise when it calls cancer treatments "life-saving". It is extreme price-gouging for anything but, preying on the fears of someone faced with a death sentence. And before people scream to the heavens, why do we call a treatment life-saving if it's top success rate is sometimes as low as 5%? That's very expensive snake oil.

They are not looking for therapies outside of the current slash, burn & poison model because they have so much INVESTED in it. So, YAY! Get cancer and be put through horrific treatments with tremendous pain that will actually kill you before your cancer does so companies can make more profit!

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How Big Pharma Is Killing Americans [View all] marmar Apr 2013 OP

Medicine for profit is inhumane. CrispyQ Apr 2013 #1

Your insurance agent cannot afford health insurance? dixiegrrrrl Apr 2013 #2

He has health insurance. That's the cost WITH insurance. -nt CrispyQ Apr 2013 #7

Holy shit. dixiegrrrrl Apr 2013 #9

They need to contact the maker of the drug she needs. kurtzapril4 Apr 2013 #6

I will suggest that to him. CrispyQ Apr 2013 #8

USA! USA! USA! AZ Progressive Apr 2013 #17

The insurance companies cause a lot of that. tclambert Apr 2013 #3

Dead people don't pay premiums or co-pays Nuclear Unicorn Apr 2013 #10

Correction: BrotherIvan Apr 2013 #13

I dunno. Nuclear Unicorn Apr 2013 #16

I wonder what goes through their head when denying coverage socialsecurityisAAA Apr 2013 #4

Sociopaths need jobs too. n/t L0oniX Apr 2013 #11

The treat ment for my condition, small fiber sensory neuropathy, is $15,000 per treatment! Dustlawyer Apr 2013 #5

When people are desperate, sellers will price gouge. Government needs to stop them. reformist2 Apr 2013 #12

Cancer treatments are a racket of epic proportions BrotherIvan Apr 2013 #14

So true. The FDA needs to stop approving drugs for every incremental increase in survival. reformist2 Apr 2013 #15