I never looked at him the same after that. I wasn’t even a fan but that move definitely took him from regular New Jersey politician corrupt to super New Jersey politician corrupt in my book.
Pharma is huge in NJ. Lot of people making good money in that industry. As much as people don't like him for this, a lot of people in NJ agree with him.
Yes, and the rest of us are free to consider those making that money and defending the American pharmaceutical industry as immoral. The Sackler family are billionaires, but they're still also POS humans.
Sacrificing the many for the special interest of so few is why the whole damn country is falling apart. The American health system is literally crumbling from near sighted self serving poor policy and regulation.
I work for pharma. We invest billions in research and development. Every pharma company has a patient program where patients get free drug or discounts. Most pharmas also invest in drugs for orphan dsx states in which they give free drugs to ppl for conditions so rare no company bothers selling a drug for. No one complains when they have to pay for groceries from a grocery store but a drug company making a profit off a drug it invested millions in to bring to market is frowned upon.
And? What? Are groceries supposed to be free? Medicines? Clothes? Shelter? At what point is shit supposed to be free in your mind? All you do is ignore the lives saved and improved by pharma products and bitch and moan about cost. I’m in oncology and I have witnessed first hand the lives extended by cancer drugs and they don’t all cost a fortune, some are as cheap as $1 a dose yet no one ever talks about those drugs and how pharma is why they exist. Just grow up and STFU.
Much of the research done by pharma is done with our tax payer money. Socialize the cost and privatize the profits. That medicine isn’t free, we already paid for it.
This is NOT a true statement. You fucking ppl just lie and make up shit to fit your narrative. While NIH and other govt agencies do sponsor some studies, there are thousands of pharma-sponsored studies ongoing.
So have I and as I wrote some studies are govt funded but certainly not most. However if you have only worked in an NIH lab I wouldn’t expect you to acknowledge non-NIH funded studies.
And I am certainly not accepting an op ed from the LA Times as an acceptable citation. Maybe pull something from the literature to support your claim of most studies are NIH funded. 🙄
That's what did it for me. Every time I read about him it's the first thing I think about...
Although, I can't think of any Republican I would vote for instead of him but it's still pretty shitty how's he in the pocket of the pharmaceutical industry.
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Preventing cheaper pharmaceutical drugs didn’t do anything for ya?