Nothing plagues me like gas. Not the kind in my alimentary canal. The gas I refer to is a relentless, greedy, hypercapitalism at its very core. Bill Maher put it perfectly when he said the United States is a wholly owned subsidiary of the pharmaceutical industry. I cannot watch a single program that some asshat media planner hasn’t figured out how old I am, what I watch and how big my fucking prostate is.
Levitra, Celebrex, Viagra, Ciallus, Bayer, Avodart. These aren’t medicines. They are Master of the Universe. Me? I’m taking Skeletor.
Think about this: Pharmaceutical industry insiders wrote the legislation on the books right now. Most of the advertising dollars to me and my wife are Pharmaceutical. Yet medicine for me is more expensive than someone my age in 28 European nations. The infant mortality rate in the USA is worse than in Cuba. My mother, thanks to AARP has to beg for her medicine, and in general our care is deteriorating.
There is something very sick about delivering medicine just to make money.
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