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Independent
Thank goodness for the new legislation Bush signed. It guarantees higher industry profits for years. Of particular note is that as a class . . . psychiatric drugs (antidepressants/antipsychotics) . . . are more effective than most of their somatic counterparts. Yet many insurance companies . . . and Medicare/Medicaid . . . discriminate against people with mental illness.
It is an open secret within the drugs industry that most of its products are ineffective in most patients but this is the first time that such a senior drugs boss has gone public. His comments come days after it emerged that the NHS drugs bill has soared by nearly 50 per cent in three years, rising by £2.3bn a year to an annual cost to the taxpayer of £7.2bn. GSK announced last week that it had 20 or more new drugs under development that could each earn the company up to $1bn (£600m) a year.
Thank goodness for the new legislation Bush signed. It guarantees higher industry profits for years. Of particular note is that as a class . . . psychiatric drugs (antidepressants/antipsychotics) . . . are more effective than most of their somatic counterparts. Yet many insurance companies . . . and Medicare/Medicaid . . . discriminate against people with mental illness.