Jamie Rivera78 said:Look, you really shouldn't be playing defense for Big Pharma. I'm pretty well-versed in how this works, and frankly, all that research talk is just a smokescreen for fleecing the sickest people out there. No other industry pulls margins like the pharmaceutical giants do. Make no mistake—your health isn't their priority; their priority is squeezing every last cent out of your pocket.
Trust me, I know exactly what’s going on and I’m certainly not defending them, but even if we set aside their blatant greed, we're still talking about astronomical numbers that would make anyone's head spin, and those drugs would remain prohibitively expensive regardless.
You see, when we first started diving into this "hobby" of ours, we had to face the cold, hard reality of both sides. We work alongside various scientists—some of them world-class experts—and they tell us straight up how grueling and exhausting the road to developing a drug like Sutent actually is. That process costs a fortune, and then you have the executives at the big pharma corporations stepping in to tack on their own massive profit margins on top of it... so yeah, I get it, I really do. At the same time, I also know that passing some kind of sweeping federal law to rein them in is basically pure Utopia, but I also know that putting pressure on the players in our own backyard is entirely doable. That’s exactly what we’re doing—just a small group of us—and we’re making progress, even if our numbers are slim. Just imagine what would happen if everyone rose up together, like they did back when they fought against Sunday closing laws... man, where would it end?🙏