Just me- I don't believe in the thing
of "big " tobacco, "big " pharma, "big"
oil, etc.
One of our biggest problems, if not
the biggest is our enabling and making
excuses. We hate the big pharmaceutical
companies and don't think about the
millions they spend on R&D, but get
mad because our medicine costs
10 dollars a pill. Warnings have been
on cigarettes for over half a century
but we blame "big " tobacco for our
loved ones smoking and dying of
lung cancer. We get mad about
wally world, but won't support the
local businesses and buy everything
online. We enable and make excuses
if our kid is a homo or a dope dealer
or thief or a homo doper thief.
Can't have it both ways
Yes, tobacco has had warnings for 50 years, and alcohol has had warninghs since time immemorial, but people still voluntarily partake...and some suffer for it.. The key being, anyone who gets hooked on something they voluntarily use, despite the warnings..
share at least partly, in their own problem.
Big Pharma is another story however. Probably a good share of pharmaceutical firms are honest..and R&D is very costly, especially
where they are not getting government funds for such research.
...But there are definitely some that ar not above suspicion of gouging, and it is all the more egregious, where a person who has a deadly disease requiring such pharma, either pays the price....or dies..
Perhaps some forgot about this "investor', who bought an already developed drug. The drug that was selling profitably at $13.50
per pill..
As soon as he acquired the property, he raised the price to $750.00 per pill. He went to jail, but inexplicably, the pill is still priced at the stratospheric level.
https://www.npr.org/2022/05/19/1100019063/pharma-bro-martin-shkreli-been-released-from- prison#:~:text=Martin%20Shkreli%20Sentenced%20To%207,%2413.50%20per%2
..An excerpt from the article;
" Shkreli notoriously raised the price of the life-saving drug Daraprim, an antiparasitic medication commonly used by AIDS patients and others with suppressed immune systems, from $13.50 per pill to $750. The move drew fierce backlash, but even with the approval of a generic version in 2020, the price per pill is still above $700 today, according to Drugs.com." Apparently, "what goes up, must come down", doesn't apply to big pharma.. ..And how many others are skirting around the edges
of being called for their outrageous prices ?
