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The Dangerous Righty-Lefty Pharmaceutical Punch
Republicans are lowering clinical trial standards which claim to “expedite” drugs but instead flood the market with expensive low-efficacy remedies. Democrats want to expand Medicare, which may make these questionable drugs “free” for individuals, but costly for society
The sun shines over the water, a good-looking couple holds hands, soft music plays, the narration is something like “You want the most out of life, the best, and it is just one phone call away”. You don’t quite know what they are selling, but suspect it is a new drug for (fill in the blank) erectile dysfunction, arthritis/inflammation, HIV, or COPD, or some condition you didn’t know existed or even thought was normal (like a slightly bent penis). You don’t find out until the end that the drug is named something hard to remember, like Ambraxavor (made by Glixar), and unless you Google the name and the drug company making it, you don’t really know what it does. At the end of the commercial, someone who speaks impossibly fast says something like “Ambraxavor side effects may include diarrhea, vomiting, rash, irregular bowel-movements, hair loss, mblemgolblglib*…use only under advisement of your doctor, follow the label, and if you should experience any of these symptoms please discontinue use” Being curious, you call your doctor, who may possibly be getting inducements from this particular drug…
