Posted on 02/08/2017 12:09:22 AM PST by Fedora
Sanders speaking, 1:37:34 into video: "What's going on? What's going on is the pharmaceutical industry owns the United States Congress. And in all fairness, I will admit, it's not just Republicans. They have a huge influence over the Democratic Party as well."
Pharmaceutical Manufacturing: Top Recipients
While I agree with this, I don’t see what the real alternative is.
I think the government is (far) too involved in our healthcare. Way too much. We should have a much, much cheaper system which treats people for things affordably.
But Pharmaceuticals are a bit different. I’m not sure what the solution is. Tougher call, this.
IMO.
So the Dems own the Pharm industry and control the FDA....
So gee, why are drugs so damned expensive????
I wonder...
Pharma is paying protection money. There are three big problems with Pharma. First the FDA drives up the costs big time and requires a drug to be better than the ones before. Why? It may be better for some people and it would generate more competition. Second is that the U.S. customers subsidize the world’s drugs. We pay a big price and other countries get a discount. In the industrialized world this is because the governments set the price. In the rest of the world Pharma is getting what price they can, but it is not much. Third is the regulations that dramatically drive up the price and some companies to move off shore.
big pharma doesnt want to cure anything.
they want customers on a maintenance plan, not to go away.
If big pharma owns the Democrats why do they let them get away so much with the attacks put upon them like Hillary did in the campaign? Wink-wink?
Are you aure? I mean, look how cheap properties and taxes are in NYC, LA, Boston? /s. It’s ashamed we can’t dust off The Constitution and figure it out.
Now just a cotton pickin minit here, Berny. Let’s be fair. Nobody owns Congress. Its members are sort like whores, available to anyone for the right price, and willing to do anything.
Ding ding ding!
The Number-One Mind-Control Program At US Colleges
Here is a staggering statistic from the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI): “More than 25 percent of college students have been diagnosed or treated by a professional for a mental health condition within the past year.”
Let that sink in. 25 percent....
...It’s a short step from being diagnosed with a mental disorder to adopting the role of being super-sensitive to “triggers.” You could call it a self-fulfilling prophecy. “If I have a mental disorder, then I’m a victim, and then what people say and do around me is going disturb me…and I’ll prove it.”
The dangerous and destabilizing effects of psychiatric drugs confirm this attitude. The drugs DO, in fact, produce an exaggerated and distorted sensitivity to a person’s environment.
You want to know where a certain amount of violent aggressive behavior on campuses comes from? You just found it. The psychiatric drugs. In particular, antidepressants and speed-type medications for ADHD.
You want to know why so many college students can’t focus on their studies? You just found one reason. The brain effects of the drugs.
read more http://www.activistpost.com/2017/02/number-one-mind-control-program-us-colleges.html
Pharmaceuticals are no different than your corner grocer. Government regulations force the drug companies to fork over more than two BILLION dollars to get a new drug approved. That's Billion, with a B. SOMEONE has to pay that two BILLION.
If not the drug buyers, who else?
The Islamocrat party is totally owned by a relatively few corporate donors.
Useful idiots make up the rest.
Wow. This needs bumping.
Why is the U.S. consumer subsidizing the “world” price?
Frightening to realize, eh?
It seems anytime you go to the doctor, even for just a routine check up, all they are trying to do is find something they need to give you a prescription for.
I don’t trust the any doctor or health care system in this country at all. It’s one big drug cartel. The want to pump us full of their drugs so the big pharma can make their money and the doctors can get their kick backs.
The Pharma industry in the USA is full of corruption, starting with the price fixing games they play. If Trump is serious about “draining the swamp” then he’d start tweeting away daily on the need for Congress to start enforcing the laws on this corrupt industry. How about some “America First” on the prices & transparency that Americans pay for pharma drugs, surgery, etc. services? The federal government spent 37% of its expenditures this past fiscal year on health care. It’s level of spending on health care has been rising approx 9% per annum for a few decades now. If this spending keeps rising like this then (a) the “Keep America Great” slogan for 2020 will be the laughingstock of the world, (b) we will crash over the Fiscal Cliff well before Jan 2025. This issue is going to destroy the United States government in the next few years with mathematical certainty if we don’t fix it.
So what to do?
1. Take this issue seriously. This should be by far the #1 topic on freerepublic.com. It sure will be when its forced on us to be the #1 issue. But it would be better for us to be proactive and not wait a few more years until we’re given no choice, and by then it may be too late.
2. Urge Trump, Ryan, and McConnell to make this issue their #1 priority to “drain the swamp” on the corrupt monopolistic price-gouging untransparent practices of the medical-hospital-pharma-insurance industry.
3. CMS needs to stop reimbursements for any providers who do price-gouging or monopolistic practices.
4. The DOJ should be seeking treble damages on the monopolists and price-gougers.
“So gee, why are drugs so damned expensive????”
Unmitigated free market. period.
FedGov is the biggest customer of Big Pharm products via Medicare & Medicaid; they should use their purchasing power as a negotiating tool to drive down the prices, as President Trump has indicated.
One of the most obscene examples of Big Pharm price-gouging is the 3-month life-saving course of Hep C drugs that cost $120,000.
“If big pharma owns the Democrats why do they let them get away so much with the attacks put upon them like Hillary did in the campaign? Wink-wink?”
As we all know, it’s for the same reason big banks and wall street are quite happy to be attacked in public by obama, hillary, and the rest of the Dems: because they’ve paid enough protection money in private that maintains the status quo.
That charade apparently works quite well as we never saw the obammunists or their allies do a damn thing to put some of those criminals in jail. In fact, we’ve seen the very opposite from the Dems (and the Pubs too for that matter): massive multi-billion bailouts with taxpayer money in which the taxpayers obtain no quid pro quo.
Any NECESSARY future Fed bailouts should involve a Fed takeover of the miscreant private entity with the Feds selling off the pieces and keeping the proceeds to partially pay for the bailout. That prevents the ruined entity from living another day to commit financial suicide again, and as a warning to the others. This would be pretty much like President Trump’s call to take the oil should we ever have to fight any wars to save it.
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