Inside the corpocracy: Big pharma and servile government

Defrauds Medicare and Medicaid out of billions. Blocked state legislation designed to lower drug prices for state residents w/o insurance coverage. Cut off supplies to Canada licensed pharmacies that continue to sell its lower-priced medicines to Americans. Falsified production records to meet federal standards. Kept a book entitled "Off-the-Record Production" in which unauthorized production changes and manufacturing short-cuts were secretly recorded. Drug company abandoned its headquarters in a town after getting big tax breaks and forcing people to move out of their homes so it could locate on their land. Increasingly relies on off-shoring and outsourcing instead of on American resources.

 

Servile Government

 

Industries and their corporations put into public office politicians that will be indebted to their patrons. Big pharma is no exception. The campaign contributions from the top twenty pharmaceutical companies for 2011-2012 was $23 million. [4]

 

Once politicians are bought into office, big pharma starts lobbying them to ensure they stay servile.  Big pharma has over 600 lobbyists in the nation's capital and outspends all other industries in lobbying politicians.

 

What does big pharma get in return for what in spends in keeping government servile? A hedge-fund manager would salivate over big pharma's whopping 77,500% return on its "investment." [5]

 

Big pharma's bought-and-lobbied politicians, in short, are agents of under-sight, not oversight; turn the FDA into "For Drug Advancement" and The Department of Justice into "Injustice" that gives "slap-on-the-wrist" fines and that will not pursue criminal convictions because big pharma cannot make and market drugs from their prison cells. [6] Meanwhile, not to be left out, the judicial branch of government becomes very injudicious in rulings that more often than not favor big pharma. [7]

 

Life, not Death by Medicine

 

Some good pills do exist. They are the ones that improve health and in some instances sustain and save lives. I am taking some of them. How can America get rid of the bad pills while reducing dependency on the good pills through alternative means to healthcare? The answer is to end the corpocracy, including its healthcare component.  [8] An objective obviously easier said than done, but lives depend on it.   

 

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