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I don't think that the cost of heart attack drugs is the issue here. All drugs have side effects and some people have worse side effects than others. When you end up having to take multitudes of drugs in order to combat the side effects of others it's a pretty poor do. Several years ago I went on holiday and it was recommended that I take anti malarials. They made me really sick to the point where it was ruining my holiday and I stopped taking them. I didn't get malaria, had a great time and took sensible precautions to avoid the mosquitos. There are alternatives available to drugs. Some people will take nothing, some will go for holistic therapies etc. The drug companies will pooh pooh the idea of anything different because of the loss of money for them that these therapies or doing nowt will entail. Doctors aren't licensed to provide alternatives so they have to go with conventional medicine. What people tend to forget is that everybody is different and what will work for one person will not work for another.