Prasad says the drug industry is happy not to shoulder the costs of research when doctors will prescribe their medicine anyway. "And that's the root of what bothers me about this."
Indeed, the high costs of these unproven – and often failed – treatments fall to people who buy health insurance and who pay taxes. It is, in essence, a massive uncontrolled experiment, and nobody's even collecting the data most of the time to find out what might be useful.
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