Cidersomerset
27th March 2014, 20:41
We all know big pharma is a rip off and we have to pay more and more for the research
and share holders. Its been out of hand for decades , there is a place for medicines
obviously but greed has taken over the benefits to health imo....
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Big Pharma profiteering gone wild: $1,000-a-pill Hepatitis drug in USA sells for less than $10 in Egypt
new Thursday 27th March 2014 at 04:48 By David Icke
‘The financial raping of America by Big Pharma has just achieved a new milestone
with the impending launch of a Hepatitis C drug that costs $1,000 a pill. If you’ve
ever wondered why U.S. health care is so unaffordable and inaccessible — and why
health insurance costs are bankrupting businesses and municipalities across the
nation — this is exactly why. The same drug that sells for $1,000 a pill in the USA
— named “Sovaldi” — sells for just $10 in Egypt, or 1/100th the USA price.
Drug companies are, of course, granted FDA-enforced monopolies on the treatment
of anything considered a “disease.” As such, drugs are pushed into the marketplace
at monopoly prices. Because if you’re the CEO of Gilead Sciences, Inc., makers of
the Sovaldi drug to be sold at $1,000 a pill, your job is to maximize revenues by
any means necessary. When you’re handed a monopoly by the FDA, the strategy
for achieving that is simple: Raise the price to whatever you can get away with,
then bill the insurance companies, Medicare and Medicaid for $100, $500 or even
$1,000 a pill.’
Read more: Big Pharma profiteering gone wild: $1,000-a-pill Hepatitis drug in USA
sells for less than $10 in Egypt
100,000% mark-up?
Even if one pill of Sovaldi only costs 68 cents to manufacture, it will still be sold at
$1,000 a pill because that's what the company demands. At this price, a course of
treatment runs $84,000 in the USA. Gilead reduces the price to $57,000 in the UK
-- apparently in a completely arbitrary manner based on whatever it can get for the
drug rather than the drug's actual cost or value.
How much does this drug actually cost to produce? Consider this shocking fact, as
reported by CNBC:
Gilead confirmed that it had agreed to supply the new drug in Egypt - which has
the world's highest prevalence of the virus due to use of contaminated needles in
the 1970s - at around $900 for a 12-week course of therapy, or about 1 percent of
the U.S. price.
Yep, the same drug sold in the USA for $84,000 is sold in Egypt for $900 -- and the
company still makes a profit!
What we are likely looking at with this drug is something approaching a 100,000%
mark-up. In any other industry, that would be called "profiteering."
Modern medicine exists to enrich big business, not to make people healthy
The entire U.S. health care system is, of course, set up to fill the coffers of big
business. That's why U.S. health care ("sick care") is the most expensive in the
world, by far, even though it produces poor overall results. More people are sick,
obese and diseased in America today than at any other time in human history, yet
we are all paying more for health insurance coverage. Why is that?
The honest answer is that we are paying higher and higher prices for drugs that
simply don't work. At the same time, the FDA and Big Pharma are systematically
discrediting natural cures that are safe, effective and affordable. Hepatitis C, for
example, can readily be treated with plant-based bioflavonoids called catechin and
naringenin, both of which are entirely non-toxic and have been scientifically proven
to kill the Hepatitis C virus.
You can buy a lot of green tea and citrus fruits for the $84,000 cost of a drug
treatment. In fact, you could buy and juice organic produce for years with that
much money, and the juicing protocol would help prevent cancer, heart disease and
diabetes at the same time, dramatically lowering overall health care costs.
But that's never been the goal of health care. There is no incentive for anyone to
lower costs. Every incentive, in fact, is based on raising costs so that revenues and
profits can be raised, too.
Anyone who expects the health care industry to lower its own costs is expecting the
impossible. No for-profit business sector ever seeks to shrink in size and revenues.
Profits for the few, sickness for the masses
Why does the pharmaceutical industry push $1,000-a-pill drug treatments rather
than affordable, safe and effective natural protocols like juicing and superfoods?
Because, of course, the drugs make the most money.
The entire "sick care" industry is driven by profits rather than any real desire to
help humanity. As a result, whatever makes the most money gets pushed onto the
most patients. The billing for all this gets shoved over to health insurance
companies which must then raise insurance rates to insane levels to cover all the
ridiculously-high-priced drugs.
And that's how we end up with families paying $5,000 - $10,000 a year for health
insurance coverage. In a system driven by pure greed, nobody gets healthy and
everybody gets financially raped one way or another.
Trust me when I say America's economy will continue to implode as long as we
allow this parasitic, monopolistic health care system to rape us all of our incomes,
investments and small business profits. The main reason why U.S. companies are
closing their doors and firing workers is because they can't afford to pay the
exorbitant health insurance premiums!
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/044463_Big_Pharma_profiteering_Sovaldi_overpriced_drugs.html#ixzz2xCK92xho
http://www.naturalnews.com/044463_Big_Pharma_profiteering_Sovaldi_overpriced_drugs.html
http://www.davidicke.com/headlines/
and share holders. Its been out of hand for decades , there is a place for medicines
obviously but greed has taken over the benefits to health imo....
=======================================================
http://www.naturalnews.com/Images/May2012/Masthead-v7.jpg
Big Pharma profiteering gone wild: $1,000-a-pill Hepatitis drug in USA sells for less than $10 in Egypt
new Thursday 27th March 2014 at 04:48 By David Icke
‘The financial raping of America by Big Pharma has just achieved a new milestone
with the impending launch of a Hepatitis C drug that costs $1,000 a pill. If you’ve
ever wondered why U.S. health care is so unaffordable and inaccessible — and why
health insurance costs are bankrupting businesses and municipalities across the
nation — this is exactly why. The same drug that sells for $1,000 a pill in the USA
— named “Sovaldi” — sells for just $10 in Egypt, or 1/100th the USA price.
Drug companies are, of course, granted FDA-enforced monopolies on the treatment
of anything considered a “disease.” As such, drugs are pushed into the marketplace
at monopoly prices. Because if you’re the CEO of Gilead Sciences, Inc., makers of
the Sovaldi drug to be sold at $1,000 a pill, your job is to maximize revenues by
any means necessary. When you’re handed a monopoly by the FDA, the strategy
for achieving that is simple: Raise the price to whatever you can get away with,
then bill the insurance companies, Medicare and Medicaid for $100, $500 or even
$1,000 a pill.’
Read more: Big Pharma profiteering gone wild: $1,000-a-pill Hepatitis drug in USA
sells for less than $10 in Egypt
100,000% mark-up?
Even if one pill of Sovaldi only costs 68 cents to manufacture, it will still be sold at
$1,000 a pill because that's what the company demands. At this price, a course of
treatment runs $84,000 in the USA. Gilead reduces the price to $57,000 in the UK
-- apparently in a completely arbitrary manner based on whatever it can get for the
drug rather than the drug's actual cost or value.
How much does this drug actually cost to produce? Consider this shocking fact, as
reported by CNBC:
Gilead confirmed that it had agreed to supply the new drug in Egypt - which has
the world's highest prevalence of the virus due to use of contaminated needles in
the 1970s - at around $900 for a 12-week course of therapy, or about 1 percent of
the U.S. price.
Yep, the same drug sold in the USA for $84,000 is sold in Egypt for $900 -- and the
company still makes a profit!
What we are likely looking at with this drug is something approaching a 100,000%
mark-up. In any other industry, that would be called "profiteering."
Modern medicine exists to enrich big business, not to make people healthy
The entire U.S. health care system is, of course, set up to fill the coffers of big
business. That's why U.S. health care ("sick care") is the most expensive in the
world, by far, even though it produces poor overall results. More people are sick,
obese and diseased in America today than at any other time in human history, yet
we are all paying more for health insurance coverage. Why is that?
The honest answer is that we are paying higher and higher prices for drugs that
simply don't work. At the same time, the FDA and Big Pharma are systematically
discrediting natural cures that are safe, effective and affordable. Hepatitis C, for
example, can readily be treated with plant-based bioflavonoids called catechin and
naringenin, both of which are entirely non-toxic and have been scientifically proven
to kill the Hepatitis C virus.
You can buy a lot of green tea and citrus fruits for the $84,000 cost of a drug
treatment. In fact, you could buy and juice organic produce for years with that
much money, and the juicing protocol would help prevent cancer, heart disease and
diabetes at the same time, dramatically lowering overall health care costs.
But that's never been the goal of health care. There is no incentive for anyone to
lower costs. Every incentive, in fact, is based on raising costs so that revenues and
profits can be raised, too.
Anyone who expects the health care industry to lower its own costs is expecting the
impossible. No for-profit business sector ever seeks to shrink in size and revenues.
Profits for the few, sickness for the masses
Why does the pharmaceutical industry push $1,000-a-pill drug treatments rather
than affordable, safe and effective natural protocols like juicing and superfoods?
Because, of course, the drugs make the most money.
The entire "sick care" industry is driven by profits rather than any real desire to
help humanity. As a result, whatever makes the most money gets pushed onto the
most patients. The billing for all this gets shoved over to health insurance
companies which must then raise insurance rates to insane levels to cover all the
ridiculously-high-priced drugs.
And that's how we end up with families paying $5,000 - $10,000 a year for health
insurance coverage. In a system driven by pure greed, nobody gets healthy and
everybody gets financially raped one way or another.
Trust me when I say America's economy will continue to implode as long as we
allow this parasitic, monopolistic health care system to rape us all of our incomes,
investments and small business profits. The main reason why U.S. companies are
closing their doors and firing workers is because they can't afford to pay the
exorbitant health insurance premiums!
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/044463_Big_Pharma_profiteering_Sovaldi_overpriced_drugs.html#ixzz2xCK92xho
http://www.naturalnews.com/044463_Big_Pharma_profiteering_Sovaldi_overpriced_drugs.html
http://www.davidicke.com/headlines/