Фармацевтические монополии и коррупция

[onb2017]

Фармацевтические монополии, всё больше поглощающие рынок медикаментов, вот уже несколько лет пользуются излюбленными методами увеличения своих прибылей даже в ведущих империалистических державах, не говоря уж о странах, которые акулы капитализма считают второсортными. К таким относятся и Россия, и бывшие союзные республики, и некоторые бывшие

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[matrixmann]

Only read part of that text in a translator and I think it rings a bell in me

[onb2017]

Thanks for taking time translation through google. Basically, the point here is that big pharma is corrupted beyond any reason and work together with governments to get their expensive medications prescribed to people without need or over the other cheaper ones or send them to other countries. And like you said either simply make money of unfortunate people or test on them. Although I read even in the USA, they don't much care about possible law suits. It will cost them less to pay all the victims than give up profit and sell something that has terrible side effects. Like for example they treat depression and it can cause some people to commit suicide but they would rather pay compensation than give up selling the medication.

[matrixmann]

Well, I don't think it's not an incorrect assumption that something like that what happened in West Germany with Contergan can never happen again. It's a matter of profit vs. gain comparison for the big pharma enterprises

[onb2017]

Or and speaking of synthetic drugs, I read that there are lots of natural substances that are effective but they don't want to use them because you cannot patent them. But then they synthesize the same damn thing, put a brand name on it and sell it making billions of dollars.

[matrixmann]

Well... Part yes, part no. Saying, people in the Middle Ages before modern medicine emerged, they were a lot of dumb, but some way they also must have survived if they got sick. They sometimes knew a few things about medicine - straight from your Central European envionment - which are totally forgotten these days. These things come back into play if modern medicine reaches the limits of its knowledge.
On another hand again, this gives a lot of potential to hocus pocus treatment.

[onb2017]

Don't get me wrong I am not saying we have to treat illnesses only with herbal stuff. For example, penicillin was very important for humanity. What I am trying to say that sometimes there are natural formulas that are available but corporations use synthesis to create drugs to make them their exclusive possessions so they can make money of unfortunate people.

[matrixmann]

I think I got that right, no worries.
Even though, I remain with what I said.
Maybe you know it yourself - people being terminally ill or dissatisfied with what modern medicine can offer to you or worried over nothing, just having seen a campaign stating XYZ is poisonous to the human body, and they turn to "alternative medicine" and believe in every shit they see there from then on.

[onb2017]

Oh yeah, alternative medicine is alternative way of making money all right. I know what you mean. And all these herbal stuff that they promise will cure cancer and grow an arm on you if you are missing one. Just kidding on this one but this is pretty much what they claim.

[matrixmann]

That's what I meant.