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breezyboo i don't know why you are so angry at the medical care industry in the US. I can't really apologize for all of the industry, but I think you do not really have the facts. You need to study how and why the US does not have a healthcare system.
i guess you intended your comments as rhetorical questions. My answer is yes, I do know how many medications have been approved and then removed after more information became available. Do you? How many can you list? Do you know how many research subjects are involved in testing before a new medication is reviewed for licensing? Do you know the steps taken to be sure a medication is BOTH safe and effective?
Your mentioning of blood clots, etc., suggests that you are one of those convinced that the covid vaccine was ineffective and caused more harm the good. The data is very clear that it was/is safe and effective. It saved at least hundreds of thousands of lives. There are some adverse reactions, and if you were so affected, it could have been a disaster, but no more so than the complications of COVID 19, which killed over 1.3 million US citizens alone.
I totally agree that we do not have health insurance, we have limited medical care insurance, because special interests, primarily in the right side of the social sphere, have blocked every attempt at providing universal health care. We are forced to treat illnesses and not prevent them. It is true medicine is a business, one with enormous front costs. The average medical student last year graduated from medical school about a quarter of a million dollars in debt! It is very difficult to pay back those loans, live and try to support a family and set aside some money as savings.
Even so, with a few bad eggs as exception, you will not find many members of the medical care who do not try to treat the patients as they would want to be treated themselves!
