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This article is from 2019 and second, I don't think anyone questions the validity of the results of Big Pharma, just the price, transparency and lack of willing
by mullen 3y ago
This article is from 2019 and second, I don't think anyone questions the validity of the results of Big Pharma, just the price, transparency and lack of willingness to allow the US Federal government to collectively price bargain.
- logicchains 3y agoPeople absolutely question the results of big pharma. Americans nowadays are less healthier and have lower life expectancies than their parents' generation, and while some of that may be due to lifestyle choices, some is due to pharma pushing drugs that are a net negative, like the unnecessary opioids that caused an addiction epidemic.
- bart_spoon 3y agoThe opioid epidemic isn’t making a dent in the lower life expectancy. Lower life expectancy is almost entirely due to heart diseases, diabetes, and cancer, and those are being driven primarily by bad diets, poor sleep, and sedentary lifestyles. Ironically, FAANG and many tech companies are probably more to blame in this respect than Pharma.
- logicchains 3y ago>The opioid epidemic isn’t making a dent in the lower life expectancy That's absolutely false. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6034969/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6034969/ for instance found that in British Columbia from 2014 to 2016, life expectancy declined 0.38 years of which 0.12 years of the decline was due to "mainly opioid-involved" overdoses, i.e. opioids were responsible for around a third of the reduction in life expectancy.
- 99_00 3y agoSo much better. It's from a time when Democrats were casting doubt on the "Trump Vaccine" to advance their political agenda, only to do an about face once Biden was President. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmZnmbGPzR0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmZnmbGPzR0