The Pharmaceutical Lobby is the biggest in the country.

They also spend the most on advertising, so they help to control the flow of news to us.

Since they are so large, and so profitable, they pay more in taxes than millions of Americans combined.

This is what happens when we encourage government to punish the "rich" and make it all better. The rich make the rules.

Seems to me that if we really wanted to FIX this, it would not be so hard.

Ban drug ads, thus removing their influence from the minds-drugs should be needed, not wanted.

Create Sick Care centers in hospitals for people that are sick, not dying. Staff with college interns and the like who work for free. Allow people to ...

The Pharmaceutical Lobby is the biggest in the country.

They also spend the most on advertising, so they help to control the flow of news to us.

Since they are so large, and so profitable, they pay more in taxes than millions of Americans combined.

This is what happens when we encourage government to punish the "rich" and make it all better. The rich make the rules.

Seems to me that if we really wanted to FIX this, it would not be so hard.

Ban drug ads, thus removing their influence from the minds-drugs should be needed, not wanted.

Create Sick Care centers in hospitals for people that are sick, not dying. Staff with college interns and the like who work for free. Allow people to come in, get treated, get generic drugs and pay according to scale.

For the major illnesses the poor have Medicaid (care? never remember the diff).

Problem solved. It would also help to eliminate the problem of getting clinical experience and the expense of running those with strep throat through the ER.

So, in Washington, it would never work as no industry gets the big theft from my pocket to theirs.