I love what a fellow Diarist said yesterday: OWS is a catalyst. Indeed it is. The "Move Your Money" impetus would not have been so strong had not OWS been a catalyst for change that is waking America up to its potential. The 99% are strong, and they can influence many things, including the way Big Pharma serves the people, and most especially how it doesn't serve the people.
Times are tough. The President's deal with Big Pharma to not require them to bargain with the government on prescription prices makes it very difficult for those out of work, or on a fixed income, and those who cannot afford medical insurance, plus the millions of us who are simply not well ensconced in the upper middle class to afford their non-generic prescriptions.
Oh, yes, I do know that the Healthcare bill is not yet in full force, and that we are lucky to have gotten anything passed towards having affordable healthcare. But most folks who want affordable and most especially Universal Health Care that is Single Payer know that it is too little, and not near soon enough.
Our country spends more and gets less than any other "first world" country on health care, and prescriptions are just one aspect of those high costs.
If it is not the insurance company hiking up the cost of non-generic drugs, it is the Walgreens, or the CVS, or the Walmart, or whatever drug dispenser you use.
Our illnesses are making trillions in profit for Big Pharma.
Those profits do not go back into our economy. They may make a few more jobs for Pharmacists and their assistants, but largely that money goes into shareholder's pockets, who use it to invest in more shares, and those shareholders are not going to sell their Big Pharma shares while they are producing so very well off of the people's misery.
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