tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4241416962008169508.post8664610628033080547..comments2024-03-27T21:03:58.972-04:00Comments on Just A Life Sciences Blog...: June 17, 2008 Senate Finance Committee Hearing Highlights -- Health-Care Effects on Federal Deficit ProjectionsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4241416962008169508.post-41566606817015303242008-06-28T23:40:00.000-04:002008-06-28T23:40:00.000-04:00If you want to see how the assumptions are going t...If you want to see how the assumptions are going to be blown by Pharma check out the following blog postings.<BR/><BR/>The first one is from Tort Deform and shows how the costs of taking care of the 200,000 + people injured by Viagra is going to be paid for by these programs.<BR/><BR/>http://www.tortdeform.com/archives/2008/06/taxpayers_paid_for_80_of_the_m.html#comments<BR/><BR/>Plus you've got to realize that Viagra and Bextra aren't the only ones. Look at Chantix, Zyprexa, etc.., and what's really scary is the increasing use of antipsychotics in kids for nothing. Just take a look at this from the CBS news from the other night.<BR/><BR/>http://www.pharmalot.com/2008/06/ties-that-bind-pharma-money-and-doctors/<BR/><BR/>These are extremely dangerous drugs and who knows what all the long term toxicities in kids are? We know about tardive dyskinesia, but what about other effects. Remember nerves and neurotransmitters are everywhere in the body.<BR/><BR/>SalmonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com