I find it interesting that you exhibit such an overwhelming distrust of the medical industry, yet in almost every other area you insist that libertarian free markets are the way to go.
Why would you not wonder if they are not feeding you a line on some things? They are motivated by profit since they are a business who's stockholders want a return on their investment. They do the research & also have the treatment.
Its not a level playing field is the main reason. Have you not notice the explosion of cost from the industry since they paid off the Gov to allow them to advertise their drugs on TV & mags.
Let me give you a hint, here: the pharmaceutical industry does not make diagnoses, nor do they prescribe treatments. That falls upon the healthcare services industry (i.e. doctors).
When is the last time you visited a doctor & did not see a Pharm rep not enter or exit the office? With advertising, majority of doctors have basically become drug pushers.
Friends daughter was put on a new medicine & they charged a high price for it when all they did was rearrange the molecules from an older medicine & add basically a placebo to it. When they could have prescribed the older cheaper medicine. The fathers brother is a Pharmacist is how I know this. I had the same type experience when one of mine got pink eye once. The only difference was I had to put it in my kids eyes twice a day for 10 days instead of three times at a much higher cost to the insurance company & higher co-pay..
Now, you could make the argument that healthcare is also a business, and that doctors are motivated by profit... but it seems to me that a socialized healthcare system would greatly reduce the impact of any such motivation. Yet you oppose such a system vehemently.
Don't see how, but not going down that road.
Let me explain something else: homeopathic "drugs" are not regulated by the FDA, because (wait for it)... they are not drugs! Homeopathic medicines are, mathematically speaking, pure water.
IYO they are. They are not regulate because ( Wait for it) the Gov would have to acknowledge they can work..
I daresay I know more about homeopathy than you do.
That is the great thing about the internet. You can claim anything you want to claim & no one can disprove you.
Do you even know what a 10C or 100C solution is? Do you understand why it is physically impossible for it to contain more than a single molecule (and even one is stretching it) of the original substance?
Again, you don't quite get it.
Can't say I know the answers to both, but one is about the dilution of the substance.
They didn't die from using homeopathic methods. They died from doing nothing, which is exactly what homeopathy works out to.
If you say so.
If you used conventional medicine which has been clinically tested (<--- this part is important) and shown to have a capability for healing, and it doesn't work, then at least you TRIED.
Gotcha. Do as I say you should.
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