Is it time to take back America from the drug dealing money hungry Pharmaceutical industry?
ByThis is what they don’t want the American people to know….
THE BAYH DOYLE ACT THE FIRST STEP TOWARDS COMMERCIALIZATION
This Act that Reagan introduced was intended to encourage the spreading of pharmaceutical education so that universities and the odd small business could patent the scientific discoveries from pharmaceutical research.
So, the public would pay for research that would ultimately serve the public’s health interest, in an industry that instantly became private. Our money then would now go to these big pharmaceutical companies instead of to improving the health of the American people.
The Bayh Doyle Act then has resulted in making the pharmaceuticals industry a $200 billion dollar industry every year. These are now the richest companies in the world.
And this has effectively changed the manner in which pharmaceutical education is disseminated. Now clinical trials are more biased than ever before, non-reporting of actual results is not happening, and the education behind real time data is being obscured and muddied. This is really happening people!
WHERE ARE YOUR DRUG DOLLARS GOING?
But wait, there is more. The government is behind all of it. In fact, the pharmaceutical industry is the largest lobbying body in Washington as we speak.
In 2002, the pharmaceutical industry employed almost 700 lobbyists, 26 of whom were former Congressmen, to lobby the government for higher costs in Medicare and more profits for the pharmaceutical industry.
That effort alone cost the taxpayers $91 million dollars alone, not to mention the challenges that the increased costs of Medicare incurred on the average American.
The corruption and scandal that lies behind the doors of the pharmaceutical industry is the education this country really needs, not the propaganda that we are paying for them to spit out.
I like to keep people informed of things like this, because the naysayers in this section work for and are paid by these same companies that try to keep us stupid. Their big money profits depend on keeping you and I in the dark.
We are taking back AMERICA! and not gonna take it anymore! You can believe that!
Hey Round 2, Little do you know that the pharmaceutical companies big money also finds it’s place in the lawyers pockets also. People need to open their eyes because I can see by comments like this that people just don’t KNOW!
7 Comments
February 1st, 2010 at 7:24 pm
You’re right! We should legalize crystal methamphetamine to the public.
February 1st, 2010 at 7:48 pm
well i think you are a bit uninformed about the true profit margins of pharma and insurance companies. It is your government not big pharma, that prevents you from buying the same drugs in canada that are sold in the US for a lot less. Seems like you are a coservative kinda guy. If that be true, go to http://www.drinkingwithbob.com click on to “rants” and then on to any topic that interests you great stuf
February 1st, 2010 at 8:28 pm
Yes, I knew this and it’s obscene. This is the same way the US military intervenes around the world for the benefit of multinational corporations, all courtesously funded by the US taxpayer.
Corporate America = The US government
US foreign policy = kowtowing to the Saudis
February 1st, 2010 at 9:01 pm
This is the first time you’ve said anything that I agree with (don’t jump the gun, most of what you’ve said is trash). It is a little known fact that the majority of research done to produce drugs is paid for by government grants. Drug companies simply take over at the latest stages and put the potential drug through clinical trials that are subsidized by the government. Most of the money spent by drug companies in developing a new drug is spent on marketing and not research.
HOWEVER, the quality of most clinical trials is superb. The reason for this are the checks imposed on the drug companies by the FDA, but more so by trial lawyers who will sue the companies at a moments notice. New drugs have established safety and efficacy, and you can only grow more confident with time if they don’t fail phase 4 clinical trials (which occur on the market). To say that because we are being pillaged by the drug companies with the help of our own governments that this is evidence of non-working drugs is blatantly false. To put blame on anybody it does not belong on (i.e., policy makers and drug company executives) is wrong.
Make sure you leave with my main point. The allocation and monetary portions of the health care system in America are broken, not the treatments.
February 1st, 2010 at 9:07 pm
The pharmaceutical companies and the chemical and oil companies seem to be raking in obscene profits no matter how the rest of us are doing. People are justified in being fed up with corruption, greed, and the profit-at-any-cost mentality that is so prevalent. We do not live in a democracy, but rather in a bureaucratic autocracy that preserves the “status quo” of the less than 1% who live lavishly at the expense of the rest of us. It’s built into the system. Until the system changes, the status quo continues.
Good post. Keep up the good work!
February 1st, 2010 at 9:55 pm
Though it’s a bit off topic for AM, I am actually going to agree with much of your post as I totally agree that big corporations..such as pharmaceuticals, oil, tobacco, military and weapons, etc have far too much money, and far too much influence on government in the USA. The US is not a particularly democratic country, it is all driven by money and lobbies. A recent Supreme Court decision overturning limits on how much corporations can contribute to political campaigns will make things even worse. Essentially, what you have in America is government by people who owe their election to corporations to whom they are beholding, not to taxpayers and voters.
You also correctly point out that this started in the Reagan era…with his ridiculous “trickle down” theory (what more could you expect from an actor with Alzheimers) and has been reinforced by every subsequent Republican government culminating in the disaster that was the Bush regime.
America is a country whose glory years are behind it, with a dysfunctional political system that is run by the very rich. It’s kind of sad to watch. I feel sorry for Obama, as there is not much he can do but be captain of the Titanic. As a liberal, I supported his election, but I have been disappointed he hasn’t been able to do more. It’s only partly his fault, of course, but disappointing just the same.
Of course…you had to ruin what was otherwise a reasonable question by making your usual stupid claim that “the naysayers in this section work for and are paid by these same companies that try to keep us stupid.” I don’t work for Boeing, or Halliburton, or Phizer and you seem to do a fine job of keeping yourself stupid all on your own.
February 1st, 2010 at 10:46 pm
Forget it. The Supreme Court is making it possible for corporations to make unlimited contributions to political parties. It’s going to be a country, by the corporation, for the corporation.