http://www.unallied.com/archives/10 Essays from the politically unaffiliated. Sun, 18 May 2008 17:45:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://www.unallied.com/archives/10#comment-80 UnAllied » Blog Archive » My Platform Sun, 31 Dec 2006 14:12:44 +0000 http://www.unallied.com/archives/10#comment-80 [...] As for lowering costs, liability for both doctors and drug companies is an area that could clearly use improvement. Recent awards in cases against the makers of Vioxx don’t even pass the laugh test; clearly Merck has not done enough harm here warrant driving it into bankruptcy. It’s not even obvious that the drug Vioxx was, on balance, a bad thing. Liability for doctors may or may not be a major contributing factor to the overall health care problem, but I have given some thought to how we might improve the situation anyway. See this essay. [...] […] As for lowering costs, liability for both doctors and drug companies is an area that could clearly use improvement. Recent awards in cases against the makers of Vioxx don’t even pass the laugh test; clearly Merck has not done enough harm here warrant driving it into bankruptcy. It’s not even obvious that the drug Vioxx was, on balance, a bad thing. Liability for doctors may or may not be a major contributing factor to the overall health care problem, but I have given some thought to how we might improve the situation anyway. See this essay. […]

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