Why is that? He happens to be correct in his analysis...look around you....then look at pictures of people in the 1st half of the 1900s. Oh, and look at our medical system too...
My cousin is a director of a large pharma company. Listening to him talk, in a positive vein, about his business, I always come away with the difference between him and the corner drug dealer: His firm pushes legal drugs. See, a drug dealer may sell you heroin which you use because it makes you feel good. It is illegal and not FDA controlled. My cousin’s firm sells/pushes drugs they say are good for you and are controlled (as in by patent).
Recently he was telling me his firm just lost the rights to a drug which has gone generic which will cost billions in revenues. I asked, based on experience, why not just make a drug that combines two, rename it, get a new patent and go forward. He laughed and said they used to do that but lost a court case on making such marketing ploys.
Seems I used to take one of these marketing ploys. My doc said he was told a “new drug” would allow me to take two drugs but in one capsul. Of course, the two by themselves had generics, the one capsule had the two generics being marketed as a propriety drug. I wonder if one of the drug sales reps in the short skirts who used to visit the doctors office representing drug companies suggested the single tablet concept to boost sales. Of course they did!
Yup. They had limited diets and worked hard, i.e. exercised a lot.