Is Big Pharma a Conspiracy or Not?
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Re: Is Big Pharma a Conspiracy or Not?
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My sentiments exactly. There's no money in the cure, so the pharmaceutical companies will do everything they can to ensure we don't get one. Sometimes you have to take your healthcare into your own hands. Natural and holistic methods are the best way to do that.
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I find this perspective a bit enlightening. Thanks for sharing!!
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True. The people in this conspiracy don't care about lives. They only care about the money coming in even if the people they are ripping would become poor afterwards or they are already.becsimpson wrote: ↑07 Jan 2019, 10:07 I wouldn't say it was a 'conspiracy' per say. It's certainly a vast, money making scam, for sure. They're definitely ripping people off when they could be helping them for much lower costs, and people are dying as a result of it.
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Yes, yes, YES. We also have to accept that when either natural cures or conventional medicine 'goes wrong' (doesn't work or is worse than the initial illness), people make an infuriated uproar claiming 'the government' shouldn't have allowed it. The author made the point that these anti-quackery laws are no longer needed because people are all well-educated and informed now. But that's not true for many. There are still very many people who are not intelligent enough to do all the research on their own. And people who are suffering illnesses are often not clearheaded enough to do it either BECAUSE of the illness. People are greedy, selfish, and unethical. People do need laws and help. I have no answers.jamiegross27 wrote: ↑10 Jan 2019, 00:14 "I certainly think there is some truth to collusion between Big Pharma, health insurance companies, and legislature, especially in the United States. What do you think?"
Ditto that, of course. But I also think we need to be careful not to dismiss the great strides of Westernized medicine. There seems to be a trend these days of landing firmly on one side of this debate or the other, without either side willing to admit concessions regarding the other. As someone who has a chronic illness and have tried all sorts of dietary and holistic methods to cure myself, mostly to no avail, I'm grateful for the drugs from big pharmaceutical companies that are keeping me alive. Would I rather not need to take anything, and feel whole by eating all natural foods and walking barefoot on the grass? You bet! But that's not a reality for me. All that being said, I do believe that there's collusion between pharmaceutical companies, insurance companies, the government and the money to be made by keeping patients sick and addicted. That much is obvious. Yet, the fact remains that life expectancy has increased significantly along with the rise in pharmaceuticals. That's progress. Now, quality of life is a different story. Our ancestors could most like walk circles around us, simply because of the way they lived. So basically, there's gotta be a way for us to meet in the middle between the past and present.
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There is more money to be gained off of a chronic, continuous use of prescriptive medicine than a cure as well.
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