[buccaneer81]

Big pharmacy’s goal is not cure, but to put every person on a series of drugs..... for their entire life.

You are totally clueless. Or full of you know what. I'm in middle management at one of the 10 largest Pharma companies in the world. We strive for cures every day. We make lives manageable for those who suffer from chronic conditions. We have families, too. You think we look at profits before lives? You haven't a clue.

Sign up for the DemonRat campaign now. You sound like a spokesman for them.

It takes hundred of millions of dollars to bring a drug to market.

Should my industry not have introduced clot-busters to save heart attack and stroke patients? Or how about statins to keep them alive afterwards? Or BP meds to keep folks alive who won't lose weight or change their dietary habits?

Do a little research, (or thinking) before you condemn an entire industry.

[Diogenesis]

Thanks for the ad hominem.
Despite your BS, I am knowledgeable; probably more so than you.

There are good drugs.
But do you think they have to be advertised on the 6:30 news?

And there is relatively no interest in cures. Can you guess why?

[Radix]

"Do a little research, (or thinking) before you condemn an entire industry."

Sure it takes more than 10 years or so to get a drug FDA approved and it can cost hundreds of millions of dollars to do so.

So then, what sort of folks would even try to be in such a business?

Pharmaceutical Companies make BILLIONS, and they are simply not in the charity business despite the nonsense propaganda commercials running all over the place.

Your protests are way over the top, IMO.

[oyez]

It takes hundred of millions of dollars to bring a drug to market.True. And similar truths apply to other discovery oriented industries. Many smaller companies have reduced their research due to this. They generally become market driven rather tnan product oriented, if they are going to survive.

[BikerJoe]

Or how about statins to keep them alive afterwards? ... Do a little research, (or thinking) before you condemn an entire industry.

I've done the research. Statins are poison and your drugs have put my wife in the ER a couple of times due to "unanticipated side effects."

[goodnesswins]

Just like there are SOME good education administrators....there are some good drugs.....BUT, big pharma is trying to shut down the very unpatentable products I use to have a decent life (bio-ID compounded hormones - transdermal type).....course I could be taking $10,000 a year rheumatoid arthritis drugs and the required pain killers, and other stuff for the side effects instead like one RA Doc said I should.....sooooo....while I understand your anger.....think about both sides.

[BlazingArizona]

We strive for cures every day. We make lives manageable for those who suffer from chronic conditions. We have families, too. You think we look at profits before lives?

Yep, that's why you charge Americans the highest prices in the world, then have special legislation passed that forbids us from shopping around for the best deal. If you folks believe that's capitalism, then I have a bridge to sell you in Minneapolis.

[khnyny]

High cholesterol - fish oil and controlling your diet, in a lot of cases, is very effective.

High blood pressure - niacin.

Sorry to burst your bubble. I understand that big pharma is very, very, lucrative. Good for you. I just hope you don’t work for one of those companies that kills people during clinical trials. Oops.

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