Reflecting on how the statins have been forced (almost force fed) on those with high cholesterol makes one appreciate how pervasive the influence of big pharma has become.
On the one hand doc says the statins reduce risk of heart attack or stroke by 50%; on the other hand, the statins cause fatigue, neuralgia and other problems with many patients. Those findings are not adequately represented in the data because of how so-called “double blind studies” aren’t always blind at all.
0bamacare (and R0mneycare before that) always had the potential to make people do what the government says because it was based on government control of delivery of health services. This Covid chapter is more of the same kind of ill-advised meddling.
I am sure there are many other medications that are actually more harmful to the patient than the condition for which they are prescribed. Then we have the TV advertisements where patients are told what medicine to request from the doctor.