Reply #299: Big Pharma relies on doctor recommendations and prescriptions for their drugs ...

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But, obviously, you don't really know what is being "pushed" on doctors and what isn't --

right?

This isn't always about immediate profit -- it's about doctors being seen cooperating with

pharmaceutical companies -- doesn't have to be on one profitable or non-profitable drug --

it's name/brand recognition -- overall sales.

Another poster was suggesting that while there is little or no profit in vaccines for

Big Pharma that the government provides some subsidy for vaccines?

I'm not familiar with that, but would seem believable.

Just permitting them to continue on with their exhorbitant pricing scheme is reward enough

I would say -- and Obama has just rewarded them in another back room deal by assuring them

that there will be NO Medicare negotiaton on drug prices.

How much profit for Big Pharma do you think that guarantees them?

They're charging us 4, 5 and 6X what they charge for their drugs in other countries!

Even the VA can negotiate with them and get drugs cheaper.

PLUS, the public usually pays for the research on these drugs!

And their PR and advertising is tax deductible!!


Increase of disease and severity is attributable only to antibiotic resistant strains and chicken-pox vaccine has no bearing on the issue.

Imagine that -- and many of us thought that pollution of the earth - air, oceans, drinking water,

destruction of ozone layer, nuclear reactor leaks -- and general destruction of the environment

had something to do with making people ill!

This war on nature is also a war on ourselves.

We've already destroyed more than 250 other species on this planet, but I'm sure we are enjoying

good health -- eh, except for the one in every 3 Americans suffering cancer!

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The trigger for shingles isn't germaine to this discussion. It remains that if there is no history of chicken-pox, there's no possibility of shingles, because it's the same virus.

Your original premise was that there is no adult-component of chicken-pox and it should not be vaccinated against because the child-version of the virus is not consequential.
That premise is incorrect.

And have no idea what you are talking about here -- think you read someone else's post --