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It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care.

Yes, because the poor are like helpless children that need cradle to grave parents, ensuring that all of their life's needs and wants are fulfilled.
 
















It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care.

Your statement is true about the industry as a whole, yet there are individuals who work for companies like ours, doing a lot more than you or I can say about ensuring adequate medical access for the poor.

But, it doesn't have to be that way...
 




Your statement is true about the industry as a whole, yet there are individuals who work for companies like ours, doing a lot more than you or I can say about ensuring adequate medical access for the poor.

But, it doesn't have to be that way...

You cannot take any people, of any color, and exempt them from the requirements of civilization — including work, behavioral standards, personal responsibility, and all the other basic things that the clever intelligentsia disdain — without ruinous consequences to them and to society at large.
 








You cannot take any people, of any color, and exempt them from the requirements of civilization — including work, behavioral standards, personal responsibility, and all the other basic things that the clever intelligentsia disdain — without ruinous consequences to them and to society at large.

Why not?
You'll have to provide extraordinary evidence for an extraordinary claim.
 
















Cheap blindness drug should be made widely available, says WHO

All countries should make available a cheap, unlicensed drug to prevent blindness in older people – one in preference to the expensive licensed version promoted by pharmaceutical companies, a World Health Organisation committee has ruled.

The WHO’s essential medicines committee has rejected an application from Novartis to have the expensive licensed drug Lucentis added to the list of drugs all countries should stock. The decision is a blow for the pharmaceutical companies that have been fighting the growing use of Avastin for age-related wet macular degeneration. Avastin, primarily a bowel cancer drug, is similar to Lucentis but 40 times cheaper when split into the tiny doses to be injected in the eye...

“Novartis are wasting their money and patient’s and public money, and risking the sight of many patients who cannot afford Lucentis, by attempting to market Lucentis as an alternative to Avastin when there is no significant clinical advantage to patients.”

http://www.theguardian.com/society/...drug-should-be-made-widely-available-says-who
 




Cheap blindness drug should be made widely available, says WHO

All countries should make available a cheap, unlicensed drug to prevent blindness in older people – one in preference to the expensive licensed version promoted by pharmaceutical companies, a World Health Organisation committee has ruled.

The WHO’s essential medicines committee has rejected an application from Novartis to have the expensive licensed drug Lucentis added to the list of drugs all countries should stock. The decision is a blow for the pharmaceutical companies that have been fighting the growing use of Avastin for age-related wet macular degeneration. Avastin, primarily a bowel cancer drug, is similar to Lucentis but 40 times cheaper when split into the tiny doses to be injected in the eye...

“Novartis are wasting their money and patient’s and public money, and risking the sight of many patients who cannot afford Lucentis, by attempting to market Lucentis as an alternative to Avastin when there is no significant clinical advantage to patients.”

http://www.theguardian.com/society/...drug-should-be-made-widely-available-says-who

Yeah... Maybe WHO should start producing drugs and give them away in giant penyatas around the world.
 




















It is well documented and obvious.

You can read this book and deny facts like only a lib-drone can.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1566635055/ref=nosim/nationalreviewon

I see that you're a Conservative.*
Fantastic...

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Much of Dalrymple's writing is based on his experience of working with criminals and the mentally ill.


As is so often the case with Dalrymple’s writings, he relentlessly recounts horrific social ills in such a way as to plunge the reader into an abyss of cultural despair, rather than attempting to identify the principle of the social phenomena he’s describing, their moral and spiritual source. Such an examination might lead both author and reader to an understanding of the error that got society into this mess (and clear insight into a problem, even a terrible problem, is energizing rather than depressing), which in turn would suggest, at least in theory, a way out of the mess, namely the repudiation and reversal of the error. But no. The main thing for Dalrymple, a medical doctor who has abandoned his native England to live in France, is not diagnosis and cure, but indulgence in thoughts so black and searing that the closest equivalent I can think of is that ultimate literary nightmare, Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym."

https://vimeo.com/9956643


We can describe it like this.
We can describe it like that.

It's just word salad at the end of the day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beJzmP8BfYM

Just like this one:

The great irony is that "civilization's downfall" doesn't necessarily require a hopeless, criminal, mentally ill rotten apples of an underclass social system.
We've always had an underclass, just the names and hues have changed over time, yet "civilization" kept on keeping on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlpsPG3FTKM

Truth is, current "civilization's downfall" will result from the prevailing "order" / "system" guiding human affairs since the last major turning point, an "order" / "system" which has so far been dependent on continual expansion no matter what the cost.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1QsBydzcyw

We just can't get enough, can we?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrTyD7rjBpw

The choice is yours.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB0nkWMV11g
















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Pro tip: I'm neither mainstream "liberal" nor "conservative". You can just consider me "radical" if you desire.
https://youtu.be/oi-JWSdwxBI?t=30m6s