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user-inactivated  ·  1777 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A ‘radical proposition’: A health care veteran tries to upend the system and bring drug prices down

    You make a drug that is like another, show it is very much like the other to lower approval barriers, get it on the market at a cut rate, then undercut everyone.

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That's why we're having tons of problems with failing medical devices like bad artificial hips and meshes and such. It's a total mess and has caused so many people undue stress, pain, and medical complications. I can only imagine that a similar approach to medicine would have similar results.

Here's a scary yet entertaining twenty minutes.