If you're a politician that is.

Big Pharma needs some favors...


For decades, the drug industry has yelled bloody murder each time Congress considered a regulatory measure that threatened its profits. But the hyperbole reached a new pitch in recent weeks as the Senate moved to adopt modest drug pricing negotiation measures in the Inflation Reduction Act.

The bill "could propel us light-years back into the dark ages of biomedical research," Dr. Michelle McMurry-Heath, president of the Biotechnology Innovation Organization, said last month. Venture capitalists and other opponents of the bill said that it "immediately will halt private funding of drug discovery and development."
Steve Ubl, leader of the ubiquitous Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, or PhRMA, called the bill's Senate passage on Aug. 7 a "tragic loss for patients." He threatened in an interview with Politico to make politicians suffer if they voted for the measure, adding that "few associations have all the tools of modern political advocacy at their disposal in the way that PhRMA does."

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Capitalism is based on the ridiculous notion that you can enjoy limitless growth in a closed, finite system.

In biology, such behavior of cells is called "cancer".

Bullshit of course. In one of maybe two countries globally where we have advertisements for drugs with all the same side effects constantly thrown at us, and insurance policies paying the pigs, these behemoths will be fine.

Politicians should suffer for that supreme idiocy. The people will, so let them have a taste.

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I :heart; Q

Hey t-fap, why does the US pay double, triple or quadruple what the rest of the world does when it comes to US based prescription drugs?

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I was right.

if you have to ask, you're not paying attencion again, coal 0/5 & if u already know, you trollin

I would propose a law that all new drugs be tested on Pharma capitalists.

Let's run an LD50 test on them with some dick pills.

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Capitalism is based on the ridiculous notion that you can enjoy limitless growth in a closed, finite system.

In biology, such behavior of cells is called "cancer".

Imagine posting this, yet supporting a mandate to test a vaccine on the general population. You really are a confused individual, or a raging hypocrite.

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"Its easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled" - Mark Twain

Yes, I would be opposed in general to a MANDATE to TEST a vaccine on the population.
I think the vaccines that saves countless lives can not be called untested,
Nor was there ever a mandate that I've heard of that didn't include an opt out with testing.
Rushed, sure it was a fucking pandemic. But not what you called it.


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"The truth is incontrovertible.
malice may attack it,
ignorance may deride it,
but in the end,
there it is." -Sir Winston Churchill

Edited: 08/12/2022 at 12:48 PM by WG