Your Worst Nightmare

That's me.

Or rather, that's me in a few years.

Big Pharm gets a bad rep. It's one of my pet peeves. Pharmacy companies seem to get portrayed as the money hungry behemoths that will sell their own mother for a quick buck. They also purposefully use harmful *gasp* chemicals (cuz you know, your body runs on pure love and sunshine, no chemicals there) that only exasperate the situation rather than healing it with free-range constantly-hugged goat's milk. Seriously.

If you want to complain about prescription prices, go ahead. I agree with you, medicine cost a lot, it cost too much. But make sure you're complaining is directed at the right place. Because I can tell you, those leaders of the pharmacy companies hate people so ridiculously much that they are overcharging on essential medication just so people will die and they can make money. I can easily say that it has nothing to do with the mandatory testing enforced by the government that takes decades and ends up costing tens-of-millions of dollars. Yeah, that has nothing to do with the jacked-up costs.

Don't read me wrong, I'm not saying abolish the FDA, but some changes need to be made. It's in no business's interest to sell defective product, especially if that product has the potential to kill the customers. And believe it or not, but there are many researchers in the field who have a glimmer of altruism in them and they work in hopes of curing disease. Go fig. Big companies, believe it or not, can be trusted to provide non-harmful products and non-maiming services without government interference.

So how about this: the FDA is still remained intact but is no longer mandatory. The FDA's seal of approval could be something that all pharmaceutical companies would strive for but the companies wouldn't be forced to pause for ten years to get approved.

This mandatory stall in production and the cost of years of testing is the reason why medicines cost so much. Just think about that.

But it's much easier to mold yourself to the perceptions and ideals of the populace rather than educate and inform them. Just ask Elphaba. As such, I think I'm going to follow the vision that the layman seems to have about Big Pharma.

I am going to develop a cure for AIDS, cancer, and Alzheimers. But I'm not going to share it with anyone except the closest of my friends, who will consist of other people in the pharm industry, heads-of-states, lawyers, evil republicans, and CEOs of capitalistic ventures (gasp). If any other people want it I will sell it to them, but it won't be the cure. It'll be a placebo that instead of doing nothing actually makes the situation worse, just 'cause I apparently hate people that much.

I'll be making so much money selling the placebo that I can rest easy. But I won't. I'll help devise and create supplements that help lower your quality of life. And once I tire of that I'll start developing biological weapons and start selling them to the highest bidder. For you see, the ultimate goal of people in medicine isn't to help at all. It's to kill every last person on the planet.

Oh, you have so much to learn and so many terrors to see.

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