Pharmacuticals

Pharmacutical Tuna!

I have a difficult time distinguishing honorable intentions to help humanity and the profit motive to make a big score doing something that just looks like helping humanity. You can see it in the books that tell you that every illness is treatable with the right combinations of foods and herbs, that you can only learn about if you buy my book and read it. You can’t borrow the book or listen to someone tell you the truth. You can only reap the benefits if you buy the book. What else don’t I know? That is what will hurt me.

Every drug on the market, no matter how beneficial it is, generates huge profits for the pharmaceutical company that developed it. And, yes, there are side effects that can be worse than the illness it treats. But if you really want relief from your tri-literal malady, you’ll be willing to ask your doctor about this new wonder drug.

Every day researchers and marketers discover a new ailment with three or four letters that, only coincidentally, has a recently discovered treatment. It’s never a cure. There’s no future in cures. The book lists the cures, though. What might have been a great intention at the start has become perverted into a profit center and a way for investors to get a piece of the action for nothing more than lodging some money in a brokerage account.

US medical science is first and foremost a for profit business. Companies must make money and a return for its investors. The companies must protect their assets, i.e. the drugs, with patents that assure that they have total control over the most important drugs that humanity needs. Not only do they need to cover the costs of R&D they must make Billions off the sales of each preparation in the US market while Europe and other foreign regions are able to buy the same drugs at far better prices.