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THE TRUTH ABOUT HIGH DRUG PRICES
Do medicines cost too mack? Lots of people think so when they have to pay $20 for a bottle of pills— especially when they remember that a bottle of cough syrup used to cost half a dollar. What are the facts?
The most expensive medicines are usually most economical in the lung run. For example, 25 years ago, medicines used for pneumonia tost only a dollar or two. But one out of three patients with pneumonia died; those who survived spent four to eight weeks in bed.
With modern medicines, the pneumonia patient usually gets well in a week or ten days; and more than 90 per cent of the patients survive. Surely, today’s medicines for penumonia are a bargain if there ever was one.
When you hear that the so-called “miracle drugs** are expensive, remember that they cost far less than an. Operation or lfiig weeks in a hospital—to any; nothing of the countless lives th#y have sanedL The manufacture of these drugs requires highly skilled tabor, prolonged research and complicated equipment—-all of which is expensive.
But when you consider what modern drugs «an do for yop, you will agree they are an investment in better health and longer life.
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