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Androgel will be safe
Not if you are female, a child, or a male over 18 whose PSA numbers skyrocket.
Androgel will be safe
One subtle point that you seem to miss. There is a big difference, in the current changing healthcare world, between a product's patent life and the level of pharma rep support that will be needed. Add in the problem with reduced office access, affordability squeezing and irritation caused by excessive rep visits, and you have a recipe for a very strained and pressured career path in pharma sales (regardless of the product) There will always be a need for some level of representation in the field but it will continue to be thinned out. There will be much larger territories with much fewer reps across all products. Price and insurance/health plan coverage are all that will matter. Not lunches, snacks or ass kissing.
We need to believe in the new company, embrace change.
We need to believe in the new company, embrace change.
That all depends on the product, especially if it combines a pharmaceutical agent and a device. Instruction in the proper use and application of such products will be needed to help providers avoid liability if the product is used improperly or inappropriately.
And don't bet the farm on the belief that price and coverage will be the sole determinant on every treatment decision. Everybody snickers at the number of times the Company has shown the video of the poor Scandinavian guy with severe Parkinson's, and the dramatic improvement shown with Duopa. Put the images of that poor soul on the evening news with the sidebar that he's been deprived of a life-changing therapy due to bean counting by some faceless bureaucrat, and the fits gonna hit the shan. Remember, politics is defind as the method by which it is decided who gets what, and the impact of politics on healthcare continues to grow. The pharma industry down-sized in the early 1990s when the Clinton Administration proposed HillaryCare. Public sentiment turned against it, and from the middle of the decade until the bubble in the economy burst in 2007-2008, the industry went on an intensive search for more reps. A lot depends on the impact of Healthcare reform, and the response to all the new provisions of the Affordable Care Act. We'll see.
As massive as the cows at the office lunches.
Good luck with that dream. You don't think there is complete downward pressure on healthcare costs already, even before ACA? Medicare, Medicaid and private insurance has been squeezing pharma dollars for a long time now. The med D plan was only a temporary appeasement to give up a few measely $billion of pharma profit. That will not suffice anymore. There will be negotiated prices of drugs established with all payors. ANd if there is a generic available, you are out of contention completely.
Reps are going to be a novelty not a constant nagging presence in overworked doctor offices. Humira has a new dispenser device? Send the info over email so the doc can read about it. Keep your pizza tossers out of my office.
Yes they will be, but why oh why do they keep pushing this agenda on interviewing, etc etc etc for positions. At this point, Most of Us, I presume, have realized that the end is near and sitting at a Panera with Our soon to be unemployed manager going over how to interview, how to write a resume' , etc. Is basically fluff....End it , Please.....Thanks
Good luck with that dream. You don't think there is complete downward pressure on healthcare costs already, even before ACA? Medicare, Medicaid and private insurance has been squeezing pharma dollars for a long time now. The med D plan was only a temporary appeasement to give up a few measely $billion of pharma profit. That will not suffice anymore. There will be negotiated prices of drugs established with all payors. ANd if there is a generic available, you are out of contention completely.
Reps are going to be a novelty not a constant nagging presence in overworked doctor offices. Humira has a new dispenser device? Send the info over email so the doc can read about it. Keep your pizza tossers out of my office.
Good luck with that dream. You don't think there is complete downward pressure on healthcare costs already, even before ACA? Medicare, Medicaid and private insurance has been squeezing pharma dollars for a long time now. The med D plan was only a temporary appeasement to give up a few measely $billion of pharma profit. That will not suffice anymore. There will be negotiated prices of drugs established with all payors. ANd if there is a generic available, you are out of contention completely.
Reps are going to be a novelty not a constant nagging presence in overworked doctor offices. Humira has a new dispenser device? Send the info over email so the doc can read about it. Keep your pizza tossers out of my office.
Sorry Charlie, but complicated delivery systems and medications will still require some type of personal promotion/instruction. Which medical group/hospital is going to risk the liability of one of its physicians killing/injuring a patient due to lack of familiarity with the product? There are not enough dead presidents to go around that would be on the end of that malpractice. The insurance companies are licking their chops over the ACA, whose passage they supported, because ALL individuals will be forced to purchase coverage.
How many politicians are going to stand up and tell seniors, parents, and the disabled they won't get new therapies for their infirmities? None that hope to be re-elected. Can you imagine the editorials? "Seniors and the Disabled kicked to curb as banks receive billions in bailout." Yeah, that's gonna happen.
Nobody is predicting a return to the heyday of pharma sales, but sooner or later, the economy will improve, the socialist surge of big government will discredit itself, a terrifying disease state like cancer will see a major treatment breakthrough, or some combination of them all will reinvigorate the industry. I'm not saying we'll be back to the mid-to-late 1990s, but some amount of personal promotion will still be needed.
BTW, Medicare Part D is paying for itself. Check out some of those tiered co-pays and you'll understand why.
Hate to burst the bubble of the above apparent Humira reps who are in denial. You are and will always be, considered pizza tossers. Any new fangled delivery gizmo will be seen as just a gimmick. Try and gain access to your 12 targets with overlaid reps and not come armed with a pizza or bagels. You will be shut out. Once a doc knows the drug, its all about payor coverage when multiple agents are available. Lord knows Humira has been seeing more competitors products hit the market. Wait until Pfizer starts to get a head of steam going on their oral and also grabs payors.
Don't kid yourself. No you won't be completely eliminated in the field, but you will be skinnied down to far less then what you have now. Have fun with the driving involved and the sales pressure of being AbbVie's only hope for next year or so. Its become very clear that Androgel is a fizzler. Remember smugness is usually accompanied by naivity.
Hate to burst the bubble of the above apparent Humira reps who are in denial. You are and will always be, considered pizza tossers. Any new fangled delivery gizmo will be seen as just a gimmick. Try and gain access to your 12 targets with overlaid reps and not come armed with a pizza or bagels. You will be shut out. Once a doc knows the drug, its all about payor coverage when multiple agents are available. Lord knows Humira has been seeing more competitors products hit the market. Wait until Pfizer starts to get a head of steam going on their oral and also grabs payors.
Don't kid yourself. No you won't be completely eliminated in the field, but you will be skinnied down to far less then what you have now. Have fun with the driving involved and the sales pressure of being AbbVie's only hope for next year or so. Its become very clear that Androgel is a fizzler. Remember smugness is usually accompanied by naivity.
You assume too much, oh Oracle of the Thread. And if you are so sure of the demise of the pharma rep, what are you doing trolling with the doomed? Methinks you are irked by the fact that drug reps are still knocking down 100K+ per year. Yes, the industry is downsizing, but which one isn't? As long as science can advance treatments for chronic/dread diseases, someone will have to spread the word. If you believe doctors can keep up with all the clinical data being produced by checking WebMD, you are the one who is delusional.
By the way, the driving doesn't bother me. I've got satellite radio, and the sales pressure results in a fat bank account. By the way, I think you mean smugness is usually accompanied by naivete. but nice try, professor.