Should pharmaceutical companies be nationalised?

Bulgaria
March 17, 2012 3:07am CST
I think that the fact that pharmaceutical companies are profit making organisations has a detrimental affect on the medicines and health care available. Companies don't research drugs which they can't profit from, which meas that a lot of "natural remedies" which might actually have a scientific reason for why they work, never get researched. Drugs are taken off the market even though they work, because they are not "economical" i.e. don't bring in cash for the companies. Not enough research is done into diseases like cancer, I think (call me cynical) that the pharmaceutical NEEDS cancer sufferers, because if noone had cancer they wouldn't sell any drugs for it. On top of that, we are confronted with advertising all the time for cough and cold remedies, bad breath sprays, foot gels, endless piles of stuff, which we don't need. I buy very few medicines - just generic pain killers really, and I'm sick of being made to feel guilty that I don't fill my kids up with syrups and so on every time they sneeze. I think if pharmaceuticals were nationalised and not run for a profit, we would focus more on the things that matter.
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@mythociate (21438)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
9 Aug 12
It's sad that doctors have to be such hypocrites. Pretty-much every doctor will tell you that they didn't get into it for 'profit' (and becoming a doctor costs so much that most of their profits go to paying-off student-loans), but the only training-&-equipment they're given is bought-&-paid-for by Big Pharma.
@fantabulus (4000)
• India
7 Aug 12
Yes pharmaceutical companies should be nationalised. But some profit is also necessary for this companies.
• India
27 Jun 12
In my opinion, pharmaceutical companies should not be nationalized. The Pharmaceutical companies are the mainstay of the American economy. It is steadily expanding. New marketing methods are developed by them. They also fund their own research that is why we great advancement with treating diseases like diabetes, cancer, AIDS and other. If we nationalize the companies, their growth will be restricted.