i agree. i understand the need to incentivize research and development, but look where that's gotten us. pharma now makes pills and "treatments" in search of an ailment. or like cvd, they use their profits to essentially buy the government policies through bribery (oh sorry, lobbying) and the agencies that should be regulating them end up being an arm of big pharma through the revolving door, bribes and regulatory capture. it's a fucking joke and a bad one at that.
putting the profit incentive in medicine and education gets dangerous when it comes to developing new medicines. when you put a price on something you essentially say "this is for the rich". I understand single payer healthcare isn't entirely the answer either. but insurance companies are essentially middle men, who weasel their way into the middle of transaction and drive up costs.
Back around 1900 the Rockefeller and Carnegie collaboration sought to destroy the competition in the realm of medical and healing practices. The field wasn't dominated by the medical doctor like it is now. There were herbal remedies and all kinds of stuff out there. Actually, a lot of physician's medicines involved mercury or arsenic. Anyway, using their wealth, Rockefeller and Carnegie decided that they were going to get everybody trusting in petrochemicals that they can produce and patent for enormous profits. They used their wealth to promote such chemicals, the trust in doctors that we see today, the defamation of non-doctors and any of their treatments, and the brainwashing of doctors in medical schools to be big pharma drug pushers.
These days we see that the drug companies will actually define a problem in a manner where one of their products is the solution. Do you have heartburn or acid reflux? This is caused by too much stomach acid (as if the stomach isn't supposed to be acidic), and what a coincidence, we have a drug that shuts off your stomach acid (again, let's not consider that the stomach is supposed to be acidic). Just a quick FYI, the acid reflux problem isn't caused by the stomach being acidic, it's caused by the valve at the top of the stomach malfunctioning and letting the acid get where it doesn't belong. This can be caused by harmful chemicals in tap water or by a lack of calcium and other minerals involved in producing stomach acid. Anyway, taking our drugs and destroying proper digestion in your stomach is wonderful, because it makes drug companies rich.
Everything you've heard about cholesterol is bullshit as well. It's just stuff that was created and promoted so they could sell their cholesterol lowering drugs. It's seed oils and sugar overload that's fucking up your heart and blood vessels, and the solution is to improve your diet, not take drugs.
right with you. i believe their was a Goldman Sachs exec that recently said something to the effect of "healthy ppl are bad for business" regarding some pharma topic. i mean talk about saying the quiet part out loud.
we on this site understand the long con, but too many ppl are hopelessly dependent on the system.
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