Rab.
He knew too much so Big Pharma/their allies got rid of him.
So this week we have one suicide where the guy shot himself in the head, and then hid the gun right real quick. And then we have a guy who commits suicide by whacking himself in the head with a club.
Sounds legit.
Really?
Suicide from blunt force injuries? How does that happen?
Arkancide?
“Best was found “unresponsive” near the garage door exit of an apartment building in Navy Yard,”
and “Best succumbed to “multiple blunt force injuries”
and that is ruled a suicide?!
This is insane.
So, are the Clintons heavily invested in ‘Big Pharma’?
The way I heard the story was: Other countries insist on knowing the composition of the medications. They then compute the cost and allow the manufacturer only a certain profit. They never take into account the cost of research and development involved. They only want to pay for the cost of production.
Obstruct, intimidate, use false allegations, threaten, etc., and no one will want to be part of a republican administration beside ever run for offices. Great plan if works.
If I were going to off myself I’d definitely choose to do it with a 32-ounce claw hammer.
Trump needs to take this to Twitter.
The mafia had a much higher code of ethics than some aspects of American Big business
Six self-inflicted gunshots to the back of the head.
ANOTHER PROGRESSIVE MYTH DEBUNKED: What the Prescription Drug Debate Gets Wrong. If we want new drugs for Alzheimer’s and the other ravages of old age, the last thing we need is European-style price controls at the pharmacy. But that’s the dream of Democrats, and the Trump administration is unfortunately threatening to go along with it.
This campaign is based on the same myth that was used to sell Obamacare: Americans are dying because their health-care system is an international disgrace. While it’s true that Canadians’ and western Europeans’ life expectancy is higher than Americans’, it’s not because of their price-controlled drugs and government health services. The gap is due to variables that have nothing to do with health-care systems: the higher rates in America of poverty, obesity, smoking, homicide, fatal accidents and other factors.
The gap would be even larger if it weren’t for the fact that Americans receive better health care, particularly for heart disease and cancer. And the chief reason that American patients fare better than European patients is that they get earlier access to more new drugs. A dollar spent on drugs does more to combat disease and disability than a dollar spent anywhere else.
Yes, Canadians and Europeans pay less at the pharmacy, but they’re getting what they pay for. Why would Trump want to copy them? He should look at the numbers. Americans already get a much better deal.
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Zytiga hasn’t been as newsy, but it’s a worthier poster drug because it does reflect a widespread and fundamental problem with the European system. This prostate-cancer drug received brief attention in connection with Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the Libyan convicted of plotting the bombing of a Pan Am plane over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988. He was sentenced to life in prison in Scotland but released in 2009. The release, which generated international outrage, was justified on compassionate grounds after British doctors determined that he had less than three months to live because his prostate cancer was “resistant to any treatment options of known effectiveness.”
After returning to Libya, he received treatments not offered in the United Kingdom, including Zytiga, a new drug that dramatically increased survival rates. It was developed by Johnson & Johnson and launched first in the United States, where al-Megrahi’s family reportedly procured it. Instead of dying within three months, he lived for almost three more years (generating more outrage). During that time, the British government rejected Zytiga as too expensive to be offered to patients in the National Health Service. Shortly after al-Megrahi’s death in 2012, the drug won approval for use by a limited number of patients in England, but it took another three years to be approved in Scotland, and even then, it was limited to a minority of men with prostate cancer (those who had already undergone other therapy). The frustration of the majority was summed up in 2016 by the Express newspaper in a headline: CANCER DRUG “GOOD ENOUGH FOR LOCKERBIE BOMBER” WILL NOT BE GIVEN TO SCOTS NHS PATIENTS.
Zytiga is not an isolated example. All kinds of patients die in Europe waiting for drugs already available to Americans. The hub of pharmaceutical innovation has moved from the price-controlled countries of Europe to the United States as companies have shifted laboratories and focus to the market with the best returns. America has been called the “Pharmacy to the World” because it’s where more than half of new drugs are developed and tested in clinical trials.
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to put those prices in perspective, consider an international comparison published this year by Irene Papanicolas and colleagues at Harvard. Americans spend annually about $1,000 per capita on prescription drugs (of which $150 comes out of their pockets—the rest is covered by insurance). In other affluent countries, the per-capita spending ranges from about $300 in Australia and the Netherlands to about $800 in Switzerland (a distant second to America in developing new drugs). The annual figure is about $400 in the United Kingdom and Japan, $500 in Germany, France, and Sweden, and $600 in Canada and Denmark.
So the average difference between the U.S. and the other countries on drug spending is about $500 a year per person, hardly an astronomical sum to pay for better health, especially considering how much more money is spent in the rest of the health-care system.
Link: https://www.city-journal.org/price-controls-on-pharmaceuticals
“On Nov. 15, the D.C. Office of the Chief Medical Examiner declared the death a suicide, saying Best succumbed to “multiple blunt force injuries” without providing further details, according to Cleveland.com.”
Wow, more stellar detective work from the DC authorities. Because people commit suicide by beating themselves to death all the time. Or when Seth Rich was found shot in the back outside his home in the middle of the night, with his wallet untouched, it was a “botched robbery”. Uh, yeah, sure.
This is such a scam. A medicine that I used to pay $180 for, or less if I took the time to send in the rebate, has more than doubled. The patent ran out and no one is making a generic. After speaking with the pharmacist, amazingly the prices went up, right after obamacare was signed into law. If you try to get it through Medicaid the price goes up even higher.
Take away the cost to the individual, obamacare was nothing more than a kickback scheme to the insurance companies and drug makers. More government hacks taking care of their sugar daddy’s.
He slammed his garage door to many times on his head!
DC POLICE are the most INCOMPETENT in the world!! Suicide my ass!
“Americans often pay much higher prices than people in other countries.”
The reason Americans pay more for drugs is that other countries have price controls. This makes it unprofitable to sell drugs to those countries. Therefore, a deal has been worked out between countries that in order for the FDA to approve a drug the companies must agree to sell a predetermined allotment to the various controlled markets at an agreed price that is usually lower than the cost of production. They then make up the difference by charging the American consumer a higher price. Thus the American consumer is underwriting the socialist cost of drugs in other countries. If those countries allow the internet sale of the drug to Americans at lower prices (thus huge profits) it means that drugs easily available in the US are often not available in foreign countries.
Nothing dealing with drugs is as simple as it seems at first glance.
The plan was to make America the World's welfare sugar daddy and to assist the socialists in their pretense that socialism works.....