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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Corporate controlled pharma is killing us.
We need health care, not forever treatments.[/quote]

So "forever treatments" is the new talking point? Seems to be cropping up everywhere. [/quote]
Can we switch it up to, I don’t know, maybe “healing”? That’s what doctors used to focus on before big pharma took control. [/quote]

Yeah, and in the 90s HIV was a short-term death sentence. 
And in the 80s it was routine for dads to drop dead from heart attacks at age 42. 
And in the 1970s a woman diagnosed with breast cancer was 250% more likely to die from the disease than today. 
And in the 1960s life expectancy in the U.S. didn't even hit 70 years.
And in the 1950s childhood leukemia was universally fatal. 
And in the 1940s tens of thousands of people were still dying of tuberculosis every single year. 
And in the 1930s men's life expectancy was only 58, and women barely expected to make it to 60.
And in the 1920s, tens of thousands of kids were dying of diptheria every year. 
And in the 1910s, 100% of children and adults diagnosed with type 1 diabetes dropped into a coma and died. 
Should I go on?

You want to criticize pharmaceutical companies for prioritizing shareholders over the patients they serve? You want to criticize pricing and distribution? Be my guest -- or even better: criticize the fact that as a nation, we have legally defined the responsibility of ALL corporations, including pharmaceutical companies, as maximizing shareholder value. But I promise you we do not want to return to the "good-ol' days" when we "healed" without the use of medicines. [/quote]

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