My neighbor, Dr. Quentin Young has a letter in today’s Chicago Tribune concerning medicine prices:
We need to negotiate with pharmaceutical firms, demanding that they provide much greater value for their products. Much of their research is wasted on products that are designed to restart the patent clock.
And then they waste funds on intensive marketing to convince physicians and the public that these more expensive products should be purchased when they are often no better than existing, but less profitable, generic products.
Quentin has been an activist for a national health care system and is now the National coordinator of Physicians for a National Health Program