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Re: Survival of HIV+ patients starting antiretroviral therapy between 1996 and 2013

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So why haven't those other countries done so? The sad reality is that capitalism provides the required incentive to motivate smart, talented people who can actually innovate. There are of course exceptions, many people are doing this work because it is their passion, and would likely continue doing it even if they weren't paid well, but such people are rare; most people simply want to do a job and receive the maximum…

> Nothing in life is free, asshole

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Re: Survival of HIV+ patients starting antiretroviral therapy between 1996 and 2013

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So why haven't those other countries done so? The sad reality is that capitalism provides the required incentive to motivate smart, talented people who can actually innovate. There are of course exceptions, many people are doing this work because it is their passion, and would likely continue doing it even if they weren't paid well, but such people are rare; most people simply want to do a job and receive the maximum…

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Re: Survival of HIV+ patients starting antiretroviral therapy between 1996 and 2013

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post #21

So why haven't those other countries done so? The sad reality is that capitalism provides the required incentive to motivate smart, talented people who can actually innovate. There are of course exceptions, many people are doing this work because it is their passion, and would likely continue doing it even if they weren't paid well, but such people are rare; most people simply want to do a job and receive the maximum…

> Nothing in life is free, asshole Commenting like this is a bannable offense on Hacker News. Please (re)-read the site rules, and please don't post uncivilly again. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14318709 and marked it off-topic.

The basis of my comment was civil, and I only used profanity to illustrate my argument; as it was written it is not an attack on the OP, to which I apologize if I offended.

It's actually a quote/reference from the movie "The Score" during the hacking scene. I forgot to quote it and provide the reference, my bad..

And if you ban my account, I'll just make another one.

Re: Survival of HIV+ patients starting antiretroviral therapy between 1996 and 2013

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

This would be more plausible if the companies in question spent more on R&D than marketing. Also, there are plenty of other ways to fund drug research besides the exorbitant system we use today.

It's a typical engineering fallacy that if you build it they will come. The public, including doctors, have so much information to consume that if they aren't re-educated on treatment choices the drug will die and so too may the company. Advertising is absolutely critical in recouping R&D costs. And that's assuming the drug makes it to market (which a majority do not). >In the United States, it takes an average of 12…

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