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Art... that $1,080 million dollar Parkie drug cost figure didn't include the cost of drugs like... ohhh... say... tranquilizers or sleeping pills which our poor, dear long-suffering family members and caregivers might need when WE have PD, does it? Heck... THAT might add another 2 or 3 gazillion bucks to the amount of money the drug companies'd lose IF a cure for PD ever came along! I mean we're talking VERY BIG BUCKS here, right? Sooooo tell me... where's the incentive for the drug companies to come up with a cure for not only PD, but for ANY disease? Seems to ME, they'd profit more if no cures were EVER found! YIKES!!! Pretty scary when ya look at it THAT way, ain't it!?! Barb Mallut, [log in to unmask] ---------- From: PARKINSN: Parkinson's Disease - Information Exchange Network on behalf of Arthur Hirsch Sent: Monday, September 30, 1996 12:07 PM To: Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN Subject: Errata: Appropriations vs authorization Thought I'd see how many people would catch my error in arithmetic. (Nobody has called it to my attention in three plus hours.) Of course, ten percent of 1.5 million is 150,000, 12 months at $60.00 per month is $720 per year, so that is only $108 million a year spent on Eldepryl if my assumptions are correct. That's still bigger than the amount that the Udall bill would have set aside for Parkinson's research, so the point is the same. And I don't know if my assumptions are right or not - but methinks them to be a bit on the low side. If so, this only strengthens the case. By the time other medications are considered and the rest of the world is thrown in, the amount spent on medications for Parkinson's might well prove to be well over that $1,080 million anyway. Art Hirsch [log in to unmask] Lewisville, TX