Corp. profits have exploded since 2020 -recent study found -for much of 2023, corp. profits drove 53% of inflation. Comparatively, over the 40 yrs before the pandemic, profits drove just 11% of price growth. In the 4Q of 2023, corp. profits reached an all-time high of $2.8T.
It's hard to believe we live in a world where Diabetics have to ration their insulin supply or risk death, despite the drug being developed for more than 40 years.
Nationalize drug development? "Operation Warp Speed" worked, initially, but then the companies took advantage of the system.
"Pharma giant Novo Nordisk, a company suing to stop Medicare drug price negotiations, spent a record $2.18M in lobbying in the 1Q of this year."
-Accountable.US
"What I discovered is that... [pharmaceutical corporations] don't, by and large, invent medicines. They behave like hedge funds. They buy the rights to produce medicines that have been made by others - with public money, or at small biotech companies - and then they squeeze the most they possibly can out of those drugs Whatever the consequences are to society... [or] how unaffordable they are."
So #Covid vaccines are dangerous because #mRNA is dangerous. #Amatoxin stops mRNA synthesis in the human body very effectively, it is absolutely natural, organic and available for free in wild mushrooms. #bigPharma is hiding this fact from us and even managed to give the most common of these mushrooms a bad name.
“#FreedomCap not #DeathCap” may be a good campaign slogan!
This comes as a surprise because
1.) I've had the Rx filed by Walmart off-and-on over the past 20 years or so.
2.) I had no issues with #CVS / no idea that this was "a thing"
Now closer to a WM pharm vs the prev CVS, it made sense to have this month sent here
(Adderall patients are forced through this rigmarole every 30 days).
A new study finds that popular weight loss drug #Ozempic "could be profitably produced for less than $5 a month, even as maker Novo Nordisk A/S charges almost $1,000 in the US..."
The company's combined 2023 sales of Ozempic and related product Wegovy topped $18 billion.
"Democratic Reps. Scott Peters (Calif.), Wiley Nickel (N.C.), Josh Gottheimer (N.J.) and Donald Davis (N.C.) are each co-sponsoring at least one of several proposed bills that would limit regulators’ ability to negotiate down prices of drugs covered by the Medicare government insurance program."
"When I was eight, the parent who wanted me on meds won and I started taking Ritalin. It was the first of many medications. In retrospect, the pills seemed less about helping me and more about shutting me up." —Jason Diamond for Esquire