Erick Erickson, a radio host and blogger, claimed in a lengthy, mental column for The Free Press that antiquated criticism of the contemporary medical establishment’s support for ill care has “scapegoated” the pharmaceutical industry.
He titled the article” Big Pharma Saved My Life” with a tale of how medical treatments have saved both Erickson and his partner from lethal events. ” We are also both around, thanks to God and the much-maligned’ Great Pharma.'”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his Senate investigators were asked about that disparaging logo during assurance trials this week, according to Erickson. ” But permit me show you something about this now-hackneyed expression.” My family and I would not be around right now without the development of novel medicines that were developed with tremendous medical talent and were expensively produced by the medical industry. Numerous others have the ability to say the same thing.
His explanation, however, is poor faith and absurd. Censure of” Big Pharma” isn’t a rejection of the wonders of modern treatments that help keep us alive more and, in some ways, healthier than ever before. Rather, it accuses the government of using shady incentives to create a model of ill care rather than real health care while exercising corrupt influence over politicians.
Despite recent advances in medicine, the length of the average American person may be longer than that of past generations. Susan Roberts, a professor at Dartmouth College, told CNBC last fall that Americans may now expect to spend about 10 years battling a many chronic illnesses like diabetes, cancer, and dementia, which is twice as long as the time frame anticipated in the 1960s. Roberts attributed the physician company’s success in “keeping sick people dead” without addressing their core issues to the “widening space” between life and health span. In other words, Americans are experiencing an unparalleled outbreaks of serious illness as circumstances managed by a medication for every illness continue to accumulate.
According to the Centers for Disease Control ( CDC ), 90 percent of all American health care costs are devoted to treating chronic disease and mental health conditions. Six in 10 American suffer from at least one severe disease, while 4 in 10 suffer two or more. More than 40 percent of people 20 and older, however, are scientifically big, which amplifies the risk of virtually every chronic disease and at least 13 different tumors.
Pharmaceutical companies have undoubtedly been eager to capitalise on overweight with a new generation of weight-loss medications sold as medical elixirs for Americans ‘ runaway weight problem, even though the chemical injections are just another permanent solution to a treatable issue that already has a cure. Novo Nordisk, the Danish manufacturer of name-brand GLP-1 agonists Wegovy and Ozempic ( the latter of which is sold to a parody tune of the Pilot’s 1975 hit,” Magic” ) made so much money from its supposed wonder drugs that the company is” Reshaping Denmark’s Economy”, according to the New York Times in 2023.
But does Novo Nordisk actually care about addressing fat as a root cause? Scarcely. The Swedish firm is a key partner of a group aiming to “break the shame of obesity,” as I’ve mentioned in my new book, Fat and Unhappy.
The Obesity Action Coalition ( OAC ) was established in 2005″ with the intention of making necessary changes for those who are living with and/or are suffering from the disease of obesity.” Now, the team operates with 85, 000 people, some of whom pay little taxes, in addition to receiving money from a corps of pharmaceutical giant including Novo Nordisk, Boehringer Ingelheim, and Eli Lilly. The “action” demanded by the OAC includes the “elimination of fat discrimination in our culture and rules” based on the “belief” that fat is a matter of “disease” out of people ‘ power rather than one of personal accountability.
The group’s” Stop Weight Bias Campaign” has its own website and also happens to be , sponsored , by WW, formerly known as WeightWatchers, which is now operating as a pharmaceutical company selling GLP-1 drugs. WW entered the market after decades of selling the foiled low-fat, calories in/calories out diet that the food industry promoted.
Is it blatantly claimed that the pharmaceutical industry is not acting in the interests of its customers? Much more money can be made by pursuing a treatment than a cure, and bureaucrats enjoy securing their place in the most powerful regulatory bodies in the country. One medication frequently leads to another medication, which then becomes the next medication, the next followed by another, the third followed by another, and so on.
The drug industry said 20 years ago that the opioids prescribed to deal with the effects of all of our surgeries were not very addictive. Americans who are spiritually ill can simply take antidepressants to drug their way out, without even considering the potential consequences of our being even more insane than we were before. Let’s look at the possible side effects that the manufacturer of the antidepressant Abilify ( here emphasis added ) has identified:
- Elderly people may experience a stroke that could cause death.
- Neuroleptic malignant syndrome. …
- Uncontrolled body movements. …
- Problems with your metabolism such as: High blood sugar … and diabetes. … Increased fat levels … in your blood. … Weight gain. …
- Unusual urges. …
- Orthostatic hypotension. …
- Falls. …
- Low white blood cell count
- Seizures ( convulsions )
- Issues with controlling your body temperature, particularly when you exercise. …
- Difficulty swallowing
What are those urges? The company website lists “gambling, binge eating or eating that you cannot control ( compulsive ), compulsive shopping and sexual urges”.
” If you or your family members notice that you are having unusual urges or behaviors, talk to your healthcare provider”, the website reads. At least the dystopian cartoon lady in the company’s commercial was reassuring. Maybe Americans ought to try putting their phones down and going for a walk after a meal of real food from the local butcher before saying “follow the science” with another random pill from whatever pharma has come up with as the answer to all our problems. The” chemical imbalance” theory of mental illness is a massive scam, according to a lot of science.
The coronavirus pandemic painfully exposed the obvious conflict in Big Pharma’s incentives. Americans were forced into lockdowns by politicians who coerced the public into taking government-funded “vaccines” that sent nearly$ 100 billion in taxpayer-funded profits to Big Pharma’s coffers. As the pharmaceutical industry promoted prescriptions to enable the lifestyles that made people vulnerable to severe illness in the first place, the snack industry saw sales of junk food rise$ 10 billion over the next two years.
Kennedy’s rant against” Big Pharma” in the Senate hearings this week was more of a rallying cry to encourage the health care system to offer true “health care” than it was a “scapegoat” the industry.
