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Topic: Costco-Unbelieveable
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Thu 04/09/09 10:14 PM


This is why they say by simply turning to generic drugs, the total cost of healthcare would decrease by 25%.


Absolutely, until they figure out as way to turn that around as well. Personally I do my level best to know what foods are the most healthy to prevent most sickness. So I can avoid all of it. As a general rule I very rarely get sick. And use old time remedies herbal and otherwise to help with minor issues.


Practicing preventive medicine, eating healthy, and exercising regularly is predicted to lower the total cost of healthcarein this country by another 40% (roughly)...

So kudos.drinker

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Thu 04/09/09 10:16 PM

I know that to get a drug approved from the government it takes roughly ten years and over a billion dollars.In reality we can say the drugs and technology you get from hospitals are stuck in 1999.But good article you posted(bored).


in med school they tell their students it can take up to 20 years...

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Thu 04/09/09 10:24 PM
Edited by boo2u on Thu 04/09/09 10:24 PM



This is why they say by simply turning to generic drugs, the total cost of healthcare would decrease by 25%.


Absolutely, until they figure out as way to turn that around as well. Personally I do my level best to know what foods are the most healthy to prevent most sickness. So I can avoid all of it. As a general rule I very rarely get sick. And use old time remedies herbal and otherwise to help with minor issues.


Practicing preventive medicine, eating healthy, and exercising regularly is predicted to lower the total cost of healthcarein this country by another 40% (roughly)...

So kudos.drinker


Well don't congratulate me too much, I still smoke, but I take vits that curb some of the damage they do. It must work because I can still work rings around people much younger than myself with out loosing my breath. I just figure it's the only damn thing that I actually do enjoy that I can actually afford, so what the hell, I am going to die of something one way or the other, I just do everything else right and hope that I can at least avoid being bedridden for any length of time.

If I, who hates being sick for more than a day, must endure any time in really bad shape, I will handle it when the time comes.. And it won't be by having people spoon feed me and laying in a hospital bed on indigent care or sucky insurance.

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Thu 04/09/09 11:17 PM
Edited by Winx on Thu 04/09/09 11:17 PM

when did snopes become a reliable source? lol


Because it is. Fact Checks and Snopes.



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Thu 04/09/09 11:18 PM


I know that to get a drug approved from the government it takes roughly ten years and over a billion dollars.In reality we can say the drugs and technology you get from hospitals are stuck in 1999.But good article you posted(bored).


in med school they tell their students it can take up to 20 years...


Wow.

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Fri 04/10/09 07:25 AM
One of the best examples I can think of regarding jacked up prices is just looking at a contact lense. Such a tiny piece of plastic, and they charge you how much for them?

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