The older I get the more medication I seem to need. I am prescribed pills I will never take. I take vitamins and supplements to help prevent the oncoming effects of age.
The drug companies are all about the dollar and they are strangling us with the prices they charge. In the coming election I will listen to what each candidate's position is on healthcare and specificly the highway robbery or drive-by shootings by the drug companies.
"When Sen. Bill Frist needed help in November for a quick tour celebrating the victories of newly elected Republican senators, he didn't have to look far. A Gulfstream corporate jet owned by drugmaker Schering-Plough was ready to zip the Senate majority leader to stops in Florida, Georgia and the Carolina Frist's political committee reimbursed the drugmaker $10,809, the equivalent of a first-class fare for the same trip on a commercial airline, as campaign rules require. The price, a fraction of the cost of a charter flight, was almost a wash for Frist; Schering had donated $10,000 to his committee in 2003-04. What he got was worth far more: the convenience, luxury and efficiency of flying on his own schedule." Link
Dr. Drug Rep - NY Times
"On a blustery fall New England day in 2001, a friendly representative from Wyeth Pharmaceuticals came into my office in Newburyport, Mass., and made me an offer I found hard to refuse." Link
Here's a very good opinion concerning anti-depressants and their harmful effects: Link
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