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Does Big Pharma Deserve All the Hate?
MEDPAGE TODAY ^ | August 10, 2025 | N. Adam Brown, MD, MBA

Posted on 08/12/2025 2:28:30 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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To: nickcarraway

BigXXX whatever it is is mostly a result of manufactured class envy. The puppet masters want to divert attention from the real problems.


21 posted on 08/12/2025 3:13:48 PM PDT by pfflier
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To: Jim W N

“Not to mention the Constitution delegates NO healthcare authority to the feds.”

“The Congress shall have power...To raise and support armies”

Why does the Surgeon General have that title?

Surgeons wield scalpels, not swords or bayonets.

Only a very small number of our 20 million invaders came in bearing guns.


22 posted on 08/12/2025 3:14:19 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: nickcarraway
Another problem with big pharma is that they are focused on the development and sale of patent drugs to the exclusion of nutritional remedies. This distorts medical practice.

For example, high blood pressure can be caused by inadequate potassium and magnesium and often remedied by cheap nutritional supplements. Doing so is often a better approach than using prescription drugs. Yet few doctors recommend that because the prescription pad is their competitive advantage of medical practice over the local vitamin shop. Worse, due to lack of education and training, few doctors are even aware of nutritional alternatives to prescription drugs.

Alternative incentive models could change this form of medical neglect. Perhaps the Trump administration will take up that possibility.

23 posted on 08/12/2025 3:18:02 PM PDT by Rockingham
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To: Jim W N

University of California
San Francisco
School of Pharmacy

“The School has been number one in research funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) every year for over four decades. We train our students to think scientifically to solve health care’s most pressing problems and to ensure that each patient receives the safest, most effective, and most cost-effective treatments available.”

https://pharmacy.ucsf.edu/

“We explore the complex processes of biology and apply what we learn to the development and rational use of therapeutics to improve health.”

https://bts.ucsf.edu/

https://bts.ucsf.edu/research/drug-development-regulatory-sciences

Can you name the Congresswoman for San Francisco?


24 posted on 08/12/2025 3:25:21 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: nickcarraway

Short Answer; YES


25 posted on 08/12/2025 3:29:31 PM PDT by cqnc (sic transit gloria mundi...)
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To: frithguild

SSRI’S
SSRI’S
SSRI’S
SSRI’S
SSRI’S

Rinse repeat


26 posted on 08/12/2025 3:35:22 PM PDT by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison........like yesterday!!! )
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To: frithguild

Oh my dog! How could you forget to Thalidomide?


27 posted on 08/12/2025 3:40:11 PM PDT by cqnc (sic transit gloria mundi...)
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To: frithguild

Oh my dog! How could you forget to Thalidomide?


28 posted on 08/12/2025 3:40:23 PM PDT by cqnc (sic transit gloria mundi...)
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To: vpintheak

Don’t ever forget the Dancing nurses, doctors and fake actor patients pushing their drugs. The amount of drug commercials is sickening.

Got a stubbed toe? We have a drug for that! One of the side effects might be an infection in your perineum but hey wouldn’t you rather not have a stubbed toe?


29 posted on 08/12/2025 3:40:41 PM PDT by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison........like yesterday!!! )
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To: Vermont Lt
The pharmaceutical industry ranks #2 — behind only defense contractors — on the list of the best examples of government-corporate fascism in the U.S. today.

There’s no other way to describe an industry that lobbies the government to mandate the use of its products by ordinary citizens … while at the same time lobbying the same government for legal protection against lawsuits over adverse effects or outright defects among those products.

30 posted on 08/12/2025 3:41:21 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Although my eyes were open, they might just as well be closed.")
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To: Vermont Lt

Keep taking your drugs buddy… When one drug doesn’t work, they give you a booster cause your first drug didn’t work but hey! Add this one!

Keep loving on big Pharma… They will eventually kill you and take no responsibility


31 posted on 08/12/2025 3:42:28 PM PDT by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison........like yesterday!!! )
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To: Vermont Lt

Big Pharma is like the drunk driver that runs over a pedestrian....hits and runs...and then the next day in another town helps an old lady get across the street.


32 posted on 08/12/2025 3:43:41 PM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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To: cgbg

Big Pharma is like that Far Side cartoon, “Bricks Thrown Through Your Window?....Call Al’s Glass!”


33 posted on 08/12/2025 3:45:51 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: nickcarraway

Yes.


34 posted on 08/12/2025 4:20:36 PM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) "Diggin the scene with a gangster lean" (Mayfield, Curtis) )
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To: Maskot

Lol. My favorite is “get this once a month injection for herpes. No more daily pills”. #1 Side effect - complete immune system shutdown.


35 posted on 08/12/2025 4:36:35 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: nickcarraway

Now? Yes.

At one time in the past? Maybe.

Never? Nope.


36 posted on 08/12/2025 4:47:20 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus….)
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To: ConservaTexan
BS! Pharmaceutical companies work hard to advace treatments. Why sell you a cure once when they can repeatedly sell you a treatment over a lifefetime? My gut tells me they probably bury research that begins approaching a cure. They have zero interest in curing anything.

Exactly my feelings on the matter.

37 posted on 08/12/2025 4:48:38 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus….)
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To: ConservaTexan

Pharmaceutical companies do in fact produce medicines that save millions of lives, such as antibiotics. But I think they use that fact as a rationalization to shield their consciences when they turn out unsafe medicines, such as certain antibiotics.


38 posted on 08/12/2025 5:04:04 PM PDT by odawg
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To: Maskot

Yep. It is pretty much that bad.


39 posted on 08/12/2025 5:07:15 PM PDT by vpintheak (Screw the ChiComms! America first!)
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Oh no! Big Pharma doesn’t deserve ALL the hate.

We need to have enough to spread around to any who deserve it.


40 posted on 08/12/2025 5:24:59 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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