Americans say drug makers doing "bad job" serving public, poll finds

[Rose Siding]

WASHINGTON — Americans overwhelmingly believe prescription drugs improve their health and quality of life significantly, but almost as many say pharmaceutical companies put profits ahead of consumers, according to a new poll released yesterday.
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The poll also found that a majority of Americans in 2004 said for the first time that drug companies overall do a "bad job" of serving customers. In 1997, when the survey began, 79 percent of those polled said drug companies did a "good job" for consumers.

With public views of the big drug companies becoming more critical, the poll found that a large majority of Americans want the government to do more to reduce drug costs — with 65 percent saying they want more regulation of prices and 73 percent favoring changes that would allow Americans to buy drugs from Canada. More than half, 51 percent, say they want more regulation of drug advertising.

"Rightly or wrongly, drug companies are now the number one villain in the public's eye when it comes to rising health-care costs," Foundation President Drew Altman said.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002190770_drugpoll26.html

[diamond14]

1. "human experimentation" by OUR government had to be STOPPED

and now bush* has DE-regulated everything, so people can be KILLED by OUR Government's experiments on humans, AGAIN....


THIS is what happens when there is NO REGULATION....

HUMAN RADIATION EXPERIMENTS:
The Department of Energy Roadmap
to the Story and the Records


http://www.eh.doe.gov/ohre/roadmap/roadmap/




http://www.eh.doe.gov/ohre/roadmap/histories/0475/0475b.html#Plutonium

Plutonium Injection Studies at an Oak Ridge Military Hospital (1945)

YUFFEE: I guess I have a specific question about one of the more infamous studies that took place that we know about: the plutonium injections. One of which we know was given at the hospital in Oak Ridge in, I guess, April of 1945. Is that something that you knew of back then?

MORGAN: Yes.

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MORGAN: Bob Stone—the associate director under Compton—had his office next to mine at X-10. One morning, he came in all excited and upset. You will have to put this in context of the time and the location that we were in. We were in the South, and it's no reflection on the African Americans, but they were called "niggers." I'm only telling you as I recall; my memory is far from perfect.

As I recall, he said, "Karl, you remember that nigger truck driver that had this accident sometime ago?" I said "Yes," I knew about it. He said, "Well, he was rushed to the military hospital in Oak Ridge and he had multiple fractures. Almost all of his bones were broken, and we were surprised he was alive when he got to the hospital; we did not expect him to be alive the next morning. So this was an opportunity we've been waiting for. We gave him large doses by injection of plutonium-239."

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and of course, Dr. Morgan got MANY promotions for his ghastly work:

Dr. Morgan began his career as a physics professor at Lenoir-Rhyne College (1934–1943), where he focused his work on cosmic ray research. In 1943, Dr. Morgan moved to Chicago to become a senior scientist in health physics for the Manhattan Engineer District. The following year, Dr. Morgan went to the newly formed Oak Ridge National Laboratory (formerly Clinton Laboratories) in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where he served as Director of Health Physics from 1944 to 1972.

Since joining ORNL, Dr. Morgan has also held the following positions:

1945 to '71—Member, International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP)
1955 to '78—Member, National Council on Radiation Protection (NCRP)
1955 to '78—Editor-in-Chief, Health Physics Journal
1960 to '72—Adjunct Professor of Health Physics, Vanderbilt University
1972 to '83—Professor of Health Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology
1983 to '86—Visiting Professor of Health Physics, Appalachian State University (Boone, North Carolina).
Dr. Morgan has published many times on health physics, addressing such topics as the maximum permissible occupational dose of specific isotopes. In addition, Dr. Morgan has researched and published numerous articles dealing with nuclear worker safety issues.

[Yosie]

2. Merck and "Weekly Fosamax"

shows that they were "gaming" the patent system - with an invalid patent.

[sonicx]

3. This is almost as funny as the poll that says...

Americans want to keep Roe v Wade...

Sorry, you elected the wrong guy.

[Lizzie Borden]

4. They had to conduct a poll...

to figure this out???