Several months ago I mentioned that Big Pharma was facing some legal challenges due to their moral lapses. It would seem that those challenges have gotten a bit more severe. Given the toxic influence this industry has had on the world, it is about time. As the Affordable Health Care Act is put into full swing we, are hearing more and more rhetoric in the media about how terrible this new law is going to be for the nation; that it is too much too soon and how it will destroy the economy...and the fear mongering goes on.
So, why, if this law is so bad, was it passed? One of the many arguments against the law is that it is so massive. Considering that the last time any real health care legislation was passed was in 1913, I'd say we were over due, by about 90 years. What you are not being told by the media, (who happen to receive the bulk of their advertising budget from Big Pharma) is that our economy would have been decimated in a matter of a few years if nothing was done. The only people who think our health care system is 'just fine' are the people making money off of the system as it currently exists. Considering that they are making hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars I with the status quo, there is zero incentive for them to change a thing.
It would make sense, then, for them to spend as much as they could, buying up air time scaring you, the consumer into thinking that this new health care law was the next thing to Armageddon, because they really, really do like making all that money. Frankly, I can understand that. I mean who wouldn't want a two or three hundred million dollar bonus every Christmas?
The problem is that along the way some grew to believe that they were entitled to all that wealth and it didn't matter how they obtained it, so long as they got theirs. the more money that was made the easier it became to dictate which politician got elected, which news story got aired and which did not. Power became their drug and power is as addictive as any narcotic if not more so. So over the years they spread their influence so that today there are six pharmaceutical lobbyists for every member of congress. Is it any wonder why our congress can't get anything done? Could it be that they don't want to get anything done?
When the Affordable Health Care Act was passed in 2010 the power brokers in DC were shaken to the core, because they believed that it would never get passed. Now, they are desperate to repeal it because their cash cow is about to dry up. Most specifically Big Pharm stands to lose a huge chunk when Medicare is no longer forced to buy their drugs at 'their' premium price.
Consider this when you hear some news anchor trying to scare you into believing some story of Armageddon.
