Pills and Profits

I must report the effect of recent prescription drug legislation as it applies to me. I have been paying about $30 a month for prescribed one-a-day pills; about $1 a day. Guess what the new price is this month: $145. Almost $5 per day. The profit is not in cures but in repeat sales. A research company that markets a cure is soon out of business. The profit motive works in the commodity marketplace but applied to medicinal matters, it threatens not only the physical well-being of the population but the science of medicine itself.

David Dart

Los Angeles