Frightening control Big Pharma has over the U.S.

Yes, I decided years ago as I watched what they were doing to my father that it was a scam. My grandmother lived to over 100 and claimed she never took anything other than aspirin. That may not be entirely accurate, but it's close enough.

My father seemed to get some sense of importance from taking all the pills he did. He would pull out his box of pills and show all of them to you. Bottom line with what I saw is it is like dominos falling. Take one, then take another to counter the side effects of the first one, then another............so on. It is sad. I really feel like many seniors are being taken advantage of and that makes me angry.
 

The drug companies pay the TV networks billions of dollars every year for their "ask your doctor" TV ads. Those billions are added to the cost consumers have to pay for their drugs. The "disclaimers" in those ads often indicate that the "side effects" may be worse than the illness. The Only nations which still allow this Propaganda are the US and New Zealand.
 
The other way to look at it is how very fortunate we are to have so many effective medicines, especially painkillers. There is so much human pain and suffering that is now very treatable. People years ago endured so much and died such agonising deaths.
It is up to each of us to use medication wisely as we need.
Otherwise profit and progress will always march on.
 
Don M. said:
The drug companies pay the TV networks billions of dollars every year for their "ask your doctor" TV ads. Those billions are added to the cost consumers have to pay for their drugs. The "disclaimers" in those ads often indicate that the "side effects" may be worse than the illness. The Only nations which still allow this Propaganda are the US and New Zealand.
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I would like to see a ban on Rx drug advertising. What's the point of it anyway since one needs a prescription. Still, they know that patients will request those drugs from their doctors. Yet I don't know how ta ban could be done, what with the 100s of billions Big Pharma pays to just about anyone or anything that might influence their sales.

And they would still have the stranglehold on the "standard of care" which most physicians will not stray from for fear of reprisals. The SOC is heavily influenced by Big Pharma.
 
Very interesting video thanks.
I once witnessed A drug company rep come into a Doctors surgery to discuss the doctors holiday they were giving him for selling their drugs.
another Dr told us that they do not teach nutrition at med school.Med school is paid for by the Big Pharma.
 
January said:
Advertising prescription drugs is not allowed in Australia.

There are also strict rules on what Dr's can accept from medical reps - not even allowed to accept pens.
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Well maybe where you live January, I am not lying I saw it with my own 2 eyes.
 
The European Union is dominated by Big Pharma too. The secret contracts Ursula von der Leyen made with Albert Bourla, the CEO of Pfizer, for their 'vaccine' Comirnaty, demonstrate it.
The WHO is sponsored by Big Pharma and (of course) Bill Gates.
None of these institutiones are independent.
 
Drug companies justify the high prices they charge by arguing that their research and development (R&D) costs are huge. On average, only three in 10 drugs launched are profitable, with one of those going on to be a blockbuster with $1bn-plus revenues a year. Many more do not even make it to market. But drug companies spend far more on marketing drugs, in some cases twice as much, than on developing them. and besides, profit margins take into account R&D costs.

The industry also argues that the wider value of the drug needs to be considered. Drugs do save money over the longer term, take hepatitis C for example, a virus that killed people and used to require a liver transplant. It's difficult to find accurate figures but at around Ā£35,000 [to Ā£70,000] for a 12-week course, 90% of people are cured, will never need surgery or care and can continue to support their families.

The amount of money saved is huge. That's true, but just because you can charge a high price for something does not necessarily mean you should, especially when it comes to health. Shareholders, who big pharma companies ultimately have to answer to, would have little time for such an argument.

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We also live in a time when we run to the doctor for every little thing. Doctors respond to our presence by trying to fix what we are there for. Even if the benefits are minimal. You see this repeatedly.
 
Misa and I have become our own doctors. The past several years going to the doctor is like going to a salesman. Or use to be. Now they are just middlemen for the Pharmaceutical Industry. I am finding that a lot of people are forming groups about their particular health problem. People are sharing what they are doing and how it is working. You can ask questions that you can research online. So we are treating a lot of our ailments with the help of people on the internet. Oh, how the world turns. :)
 
Paco Dennis said:
Misa and I have become our own doctors. The past several years going to the doctor is like going to a salesman. Or use to be. Now they are just middlemen for the Pharmaceutical Industry. I am finding that a lot of people are forming groups about their particular health problem. People are sharing what they are doing and how it is working. You can ask questions that you can research online. So we are treating a lot of our ailments with the help of people on the internet. Oh, how the world turns. :)
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All of what you say makes perfect sense to me.

Iā€™ve sworn off doctors altogether.
 
nan said:
Very interesting video thanks.
I once witnessed A drug company rep come into a Doctors surgery to discuss the doctors holiday they were giving him for selling their drugs.
another Dr told us that they do not teach nutrition at med school.Med school is paid for by the Big Pharma.
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I walked into my doctors office with the same scenario. You could hear the entire conversation of what was exchanged between big pharma plus and my doctor.

Itā€™s sad that doctors arenā€™t taught about good nutrition yet not surprising. Doctors arenā€™t taught anything that doesnā€™t profit them. Letā€™s face it, doctors donā€™t get paid when we are healthy and vibrant. They prosper when we are sick and miserable.
 
PeppermintPatty said:
I walked into my doctors office with the same scenario. You could hear the entire conversation of what was exchanged between big pharma plus and my doctor.

Itā€™s sad that doctors arenā€™t taught about good nutrition yet not surprising. Doctors arenā€™t taught anything that doesnā€™t profit them. Letā€™s face it, doctors donā€™t get paid when we are healthy and vibrant. They prosper when we are sick and miserable.
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They ( the doctors ) get paid more and more as the industries profit. How else could they expect the charges they levy. They resemble the structure of the mafia. If you are having stomach problems, the computer questioning will lead to a conclusion that you need a drug for the stomach problem, a drug for the depression it is causing, and benzo's for when you freak out because of the panic you feel about losing your health. Then you will need to see them every two months, at which time you have other symptoms that the computer will spit out other drugs that will "help" you. We all need to be very careful about what a doctor prescribes.
 
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I got a graduate degree in nutrition/dietetics in the early 90s and learned fairly quickly that the US medical industry is not interested in health promotion. Dietitians are the least reimbursed of all ancillary health care providers and it's not even close. Physical, occupational, speech, respiratory... all those therapists are reimbursed at at much higher rate by Medicare, Medicade and private insurances.

Chronic illness makes pharmaceutical companies money. Disease prevention by healthy lifestyle choices loses money for them. Their 'disease prevention' focus is pharmaceutical based ...a pill or injection and they're all on that.
 
AnnieA said:
I got a graduate degree in nutrition/dietetics in the early 90s and learned fairly quickly that the US medical industry is not interested in health promotion. Dietitians are the least reimbursed of all ancillary health care providers and it's not even close. Physical, occupational, speech, respiratory... all those therapists are reimbursed at at much higher rate by Medicare, Medicade and private insurances.

Chronic illness makes pharmaceutical companies money. Disease prevention by healthy lifestyle choices loses money for them. Their 'disease prevention' focus is pharmaceutical based ...a pill or injection and they're all on that.
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Iā€™m a nutritionist by trade.
Well stated
 
AnnieA said:
I got a graduate degree in nutrition/dietetics in the early 90s and learned fairly quickly that the US medical industry is not interested in health promotion. Dietitians are the least reimbursed of all ancillary health care providers and it's not even close. Physical, occupational, speech, respiratory... all those therapists are reimbursed at at much higher rate by Medicare, Medicade and private insurances.

Chronic illness makes pharmaceutical companies money. Disease prevention by healthy lifestyle choices loses money for them. Their 'disease prevention' focus is pharmaceutical based ...a pill or injection and they're all on that.
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You're absolutely right, Annie. Not only is nutrition not taught in med school, neither is the musculo-skeletal system (0-4 hours). What percentage of the human body is made up by the musculo-skeletal system? 70%!! So 70% of the body is not taught in med school.

Big pharma is the culprit. They dictate what's taught in med school, and they dictate the vaunted "standard of care" (SOC), of which physician's risk their licenses if they do not follow it. The practice of portal of entry medicine (GPs, Family medicine, internists) has pretty much devolved into finding chronic illnesses for which can be prescribed medicines for life. They don't want to kill you, they want to keep the party going.
 
ChiroDoc said:
I would like to see a ban on Rx drug advertising. What's the point of it anyway since one needs a prescription. Still, they know that patients will request those drugs from their doctors. Yet I don't know how ta ban could be done, what with the 100s of billions Big Pharma pays to just about anyone or anything that might influence their sales.

And they would still have the stranglehold on the "standard of care" which most physicians will not stray from for fear of reprisals. The SOC is heavily influenced by Big Pharma.
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the advertising is so if enough patients request the drug on TV that maybe it will convince insurance to pay for it .... new drugs on market take awhile to be considered SOC and able to be covered the sooner that is done pharma starts to reap in big bucks ...
 
Doctors are encouraged to prescribe drugs instead of investigating the true cause of a problem. I wonder how many people have died because a condition wasn't caught early enough. This applies to mental problems too. I needed to talk to someone about my experiences. Instead, I was prescribed drugs. Thankfully, I had the sense not to take them, but others think doctors are infallible and do whatever a doctor tells them.
 
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