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The profit per product is based upon the willingness and ability of the
patient or the HMO to pay.<br>
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So one would have to research the willingness of the bulk clients HMO's
and National health plans<br>
to pay before deciding which is more profitable to develop or market on
a specific product<br>
by product basis ... <br>
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It is not quite as simple as make it then sell it as I see it.<br>
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Gary Miller wrote:<br>
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Actually a vaccine that prevents the disease in the first place would be the
bigger money maker and result in the least risk of the disease continuing
it's spread.
In that way you don't limit your customers to those who already have the
disease but rather a much larger group of the general population that would
have reason to fear accidently contracting the disease.
More importantly the larger potential earnings serves as a larger financial
incentive to the drug companies to perform research.
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On 9/7/05, Lifespan Pharma Inc. wrote:
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Similar with some disease drug development, you want to treat the
disease so it does not kill but your efforts to simply give a one
time treatment that forever cures and eliminates the long term market
for a treatment that curbs but does not quickly cure has market
disincentives built in.
Investors won't spend 300 million to for example cure diabetes with a
one time treatment when a drug that emeliorates 90% of the damage
without reversing the disease is a wonderful investment.
Wish human nature was more ethical but I really think money takes
precedant over ethics in the marketplace which by its basic nature is
sociopathic and not socialistic.
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