Oh great, yet another cholestorol controlling drug - wonder why when there are alrady several good drugs that do a good job of conrolling cholestorol - of course it's all about money. If it wasn't, there would be more drugs being discovered/developed for CFers, especially those of us with Cepacia - but no, we don't have anywhere the same amount of financial punch. Lipitor and Lipex are the biggest selling drug in the USA.
What brasses me off even more, is that for most people, high cholesterol and heart disease are preventable diseased, the US citizens who pay through the nose for these cholesterol drugs have most of the time dug their own graves by shovelling fatty foods down their throats all day and sittin on their too fat a$$es in between feeds - yet billions of dollars a year is spent trying to save their sad self destructive a$$es.
Yet here we are with an unfair and undeserved disease, and we spend most of our lives trying to stay healthy, watching what we eat, not smoking/drinking, exercising regularly - but for us, there is next to no money spent...we just have to suffer in silence.
Extremely unjust and it makes me mad as hell. I suggest they spend $1 buying a piece of number 8 wire for every American with heart disease resulting from lifestyle choices and wire their fat jaws shut instead, then donate the money to those of us with genetic disease not of our own making instead.
It's right up there with our NZ tax money paying for the health care of people who lead the same 'fat person' lifestyle and end up with heart disease, diabetes, cancer......they spend half their lives in hospital using up my tax money, simply because they CHOOSE to eat crap food, drink too much booze, smoke cigarettes and sit around all day.......you'd have to live on a desert island to not know that these things are all bad for you...but still they do it, so i'll keep working to ensure these mentally bereft and irresponsible people can be kept alive...while I slowly die.
