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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Big pharmaceuticals now take in over $1 trillion worldwide. Prices overall have risen over 30-40% since 2012. I don’t believe the hype that all this money needs to be paid for research and development. That’s the cover story.


5 posted on 12/07/2016 9:31:45 AM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: SkyPilot

Big Pharma has cronies in the FDA.


11 posted on 12/07/2016 9:50:46 AM PST by miliantnutcase
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To: SkyPilot

I don’t believe the hype that all this money needs to be paid for research and development.

Fact is, most drugs just mask disease, not cure it. There's no money in a cured patient.

Worse, most drugs have side effects that indicate more drugs, it's a vicious circle. Both my parents died with enough leftover prescription drugs to pollute the water supply.


13 posted on 12/07/2016 10:18:40 AM PST by 867V309 (Lock Her Up)
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To: SkyPilot

Are you kidding? Doctors make a FORTUNE pushing pills pharma asks them to. Vacations too.

They are DISGUSTING and SICKENING.

See how many lawsuits they lost AFTER making 10s of billions on a med and then paying a few billion in fines.

I’d take that deal.

Look at Neurontin for starters. Off label marketed for just about everything.


14 posted on 12/07/2016 11:18:09 AM PST by dp0622 (IThe only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: SkyPilot

The Big Pharma, AMA, & FDA opposition to the so-called scams in natural modalities, including nutritional supplements, is, as always, about MONEY:

A drug is an artificial, and therefore a patentable, substance. Once patented, the Pharma has exclusive control, and can charge whatever it likes.


16 posted on 12/07/2016 11:40:05 AM PST by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - JRRT)
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