Posted on 08/12/2025 2:28:30 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Do they use gov’t research then profit off it?
Yes
Do they sell drugs cheaper to other nations that didn’t fund the research?
Yes
Are they screwing over Americans?
Yes
Yes. Ignore the pill mills. The incessant hawking of pills for every malady. The revolving foor where FDA and USDA bureaucrats get nice fat retirement jobs from Pharma. Ignore the carnage from the users of psych meds. Ignore the drugs that get approved that are no better than placebo. Ignore the disastrous covid vaxxes. “Elevate the conversation.”
The fact that pharma does come up with beneficial treatments doesn’t alleviate the corruption in the system. They are regulated by themselves.
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.
Yes.
Yeah ... a complete disaster is possible. Warp Speed and vaccine mandates are prime examples of what NOT to do.
Neither will putting your trust and healthcare into the hands of man and his gov't.
The best healthcare system in the world is the voluntary cooperation DIRECTLY between doctor and patient without the gov't telling either what to do, with their hand out for additional expense.
Since when did politicians and bureaucrats become doctors and health experts????
How stupid.
Not to mention the Constitution delegates NO healthcare authority to the feds.
Yes.
The Powerful Middlemen Inflating Drug Costs and Squeezing Main Street Pharmacies
Big pharma likes to blame everyone but themselves. They claim its all about the big R&D expenses.
But they cannot do direct-to-the-consumer advertising in either the EU or Japan, yet they sell about $500 billion worth of drugs there, while spending $10 billion here on TV advertising alone.
We have a population about 110 million less than the EU, but we spend about $200 billion more annually on medicinal drugs than they do. Is it medically worth it?? How much of it is waste generated by all the direct-to-the-consumer tv ads??
Basically, yes.
They chose profits over ethics and cooperated with government to create those profits.
People like to complain about “Big Pharma.”
When faced with a potentially terminal disease and the only known “curative” treatment is from Big Pharma…you embrace them.
I love Big Pharma.
List of Defective Drugs:
Accutane
AlloDerm
Avandia
Bextra
Byetta
Chantix
Cipro
Cox-2 Inhibitors
Crestor
Depo-Provera
Digitek
Ephedra
Erythropoiesis Stimulating Agents
Fosamax
Gadolinium
Gardasil
Heparin
Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT)
Hydroxycut
Kugel Hernia Patch
Lotronex
Ortho Evra Birth Control Patch
OxyContin
Paxil
Permax and Dostinex
PPA
Premarin
Prempro
Propulsid
Provera
Raptiva
Reglan
Rezulin
Serzone
Thimerosal
Trasylol
Vioxx
Vytorin
Yasmin
Yaz
Zelnorm
Zetia
Zicam
Zithromax
Zyprexa
From my just modified profile page:
DRUG APPROVAL
Drugs approved by the European Union/Health Canada would be deemed eligible for import, sale and use in the USA six/eighteen months after such approval unless Congress acts otherwise.
NEW DRUG PLANS
Federal PPACA exchanges would offer Interstate Class Drug Plans,
exempt from state control, that to be fully federally subsidy eligible must cover at least:
1. 80% of all recombinant drugs by key active entity
(or 100% less the percentages held by the top three domestic rights holders by percentage),
2. 80% of all FDA breakthrough drugs by key active entity
(or 100% less the percentages held by the top three domestic rights holders by percentage),
3. 80% of all drugs covered by a key active entity patent
(or 100% less the percentages held by the top three domestic rights holders by percentage),
4. 90% of all WHO “essential” drugs
Any percentage shortfalls would result in twice the percentage reduction in the federal subsidy amount and must have the word ‘Substandard’ in the drug plan name to be at all federal subsidy eligible.
This system would allow for genuine negotiation between drug plans and drug companies. Drug plans would have an incentive to try to buy drugs from drug companies and drug companies would have an incentive to make deals to make sales.
Plan in-network drugs would be supplied at on an all-the doctors prescribe basis. The co-pays would be roughly equal to mere manufacturing cost.
Some plans might provide 30-day/one treatment purchase order vouchers for out-of-network drugs. Such plans might set purchase order voucher amounts based on known foreign pricing, type of drug [biologic, patented chemical], or by a plan specified amount by drug. Patients would have to try to get the purchase order voucher accepted at the pharmacy or online. Drug makers would have the right to refuse such vouchers, but few would probably do so.
The baseline federal drug subsidy would be the average policy holder age (as of the beginning of the policy period) divided by 3 taken as a percent of PPACA baseline subsidy amount for the PPACA household.
EXAMPLE A: For a PPACA household with a 34-year-old, a 36-year-old, and a two-year-old, the baseline federal drug subsidy would be 8% ((34+36+2)/(3*3))% of the PPACA household’s baseline subsidy amount.
EXAMPLE B: For a single PPACA policy of age 60, the baseline federal drug subsidy would be 20% (60/3)% of the PPACA household’s baseline subsidy amount.
A&B Medical Service Plans
A&B Medical Service Plans would have the same medical service coverage as Medicare Parts A & B. They would not have built-in drug coverage that Medicare Part B currently has. They would be PPACA subsidy eligible up to the PPACA baseline subsidy amount for the PPACA household less the household’s federal drug subsidy.
A&B Medical Service Plan coverage providers would have to continue to offer PPACA coverage plans unless the provider’s PPACA plan(s) would have less than 10,000 subscribers in total.
A&B Medical Service Plans would have to keep their funds in federally regulated financial institutions.
A lot of the drugs are for simple maladies that can be handled with over the counter medicine.
What about Fen-Phen and Thalidomide?
100%. And the medical establishment isn’t far behind.
My wife just had to have a mastectomy. Now they want her to take an estrogen blocker for five years.
According to our research, the medication blocks estrogen and is suspected in causing cancer in about ten years.
However, for oncologists, 5 years cancer free is their magic number.
She’s seeing her naturopath oncologist next week. We trust her. Partly because we pay her out of pocket, not laundered through pharma kickbacks
Yes. They deserve all the hate, and probably more. They push their drugs with lies and hidden information. They lobby for immunity from their experiments on humans and animals. They blatantly lie when there are cheaper options and things to do, so they can reap more profit.
For what good they may do, the evil they do more than offsets it.
And more.
A lot of the drugs are for “lifestyle” induced maladies that changes in lifestyle can fix. But, in the U.S. instead of kicking their overweight kid out to the park every day, they’ll get a doctor to prescribe a “weight loss” drug. Or they’ll wait till the kid develops type 2 diabetes and then they’ll spend even more on drugs.
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