Posted on 09/22/2024 9:09:02 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
Considering the track record with side effects from new meds, that wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing.
Yes, some conditions need new meds.
But there are some out there already approved around the world and being used world wide that have not been given the green light here.
Plus, many of the US population's health problems could be solved with a better diet (and a new food pyramid), losing weight, and getting out and moving.
MANY health issues are self-inflicted.
This should put an end to Federal involvement in R&D.
Expect R&D to become even more concentrated on sure winners. Expect even less R&D for rare or emergent diseases.
Once you eliminate the profit motive, people will stop investing and taking risks. Once you eliminate the protection of contracts and patents, innovation will grind to a halt.
R&D is paid for with taxpayer money through the NIH.
I have had similar thoughts, but more related to the manufacture and availability of drugs. Drugs should be considered a critical resource where the US has the right to demand domestic manufacturing. How non-compliance would be handled, I’m not sure. Perhaps a forced licensing arrangement. I don’t really like the idea as a whole (compelling actions by companies - such power would definitely be misused), but ‘Big Pharma’ has lobbied itself into a monopolistic cartel.
Other such critical resources might be (e.g.) computer chips and rare earths processing (where possible).
Let’s not forget that she very clearly stated that her morality has not changed since the 2020 campaign. Everybody on this thread should post this clip to their social media, and also email it to everyone they know. This needs to go viral, because it says more about what this woman is And anything else I have seen to date. She is nothing more or less than a wannabe communist dictator.
Some of it is NIH funded or at least compounds developed with various grants. A lot of it is privately funded, especially after it shows some early promise. Then private capital comes in and does human studies. And if a drug gets through phase 2 or into phase 3 it is often bought out by big pharma for a big premium. Instead of spending 15% of their money on R&D big pharma spends usually less than 5% and uses the rest to build a cash hoard to cherry pick drugs that have already shown a great deal of promise - or even on the cusp of approval or after approval with the idea that the small biotech or small pharma that spent a decade plus developing and testing the drug isn’t equipped to effectively market the drug.
Tyrrany!
He never did do a lot of ads.
You get a close up of her eyes?
I’ll say antidepressants for $200, Alex- As a workers comp case manager I’ve seen plenty of clients exhibiting those same behaviors when addicted to/overusing anti-anxiety and antidepressant drugs, as well as heavy-duty psychotropics and legal opiate painkillers. Someone in politics is able to get the legal stuff with no problem and no public exposure-remember the jokes about a pharmacy down the hall from congress chambers? Que Mala isn’t Hunter Biden-he’s smarter...
Some truth there. But I have at least two friends alive today because of some of those new drugs. Even five years ago they’d be dead. Now the drugs were incredibly expensive but worth it. Thank God for good health insurance - and not Obamacare junk.
“Drugs should be considered a critical resource where the US has the right to demand domestic manufacturing.”
Before the globalists opened up trade with China in the 1990’s many US pharmaceutical companies manufactured in Puerto Rico where labor rates were lower than in the US and there were significant government incentives to locate in Puerto Rico. Many apparel companies also had their high labor content sewing operations in Puerto Rico. Since Puerto Rico was a territory of the United States, goods made in Puerto Rico could be labeled “Made in USA”.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.