Me to my boss son as he’s printing out records for a subpoena for some stupid class action drug company lawsuit:
“Gee, I dont know why medication costs so much in this country. What ever happened to people actually working for a living?”
Theres nothing worse than losing an entire day to being sick. However Tylenol makes these little night and day candy coated pills that make life happy.
This post is driven by cold medication.
Oh My God.
The Avandia shitstorm is hitting the fan already. Gotten like bazillon phone calls already.
Points:
Dear America,
You wonder why your drug costs are so high? You wonder why that prescription for prevacid or protonix costs 150 bucks for a month supply? Its because unfortunately, a small percentage of you figure you can sue the drug manufacturer due to known side effects. Side effects that are so odd and infrequent that you werent warned about. So you settle for 3.8 billion dollars. That money has to come from somewhere, so like any retard with any common sense, of course the price of goods is going to go up to recoup the cost.
Im not talking about weird side effects, im talking about perfectly known stuff. Like Zyprexa causing diabetes or increased suicide risk with children an antidepressants.
So why in the fuck are people suing because of this? Thats like suing because an ace-inhibitor causes cough, or Trazodone causes drowsiness or priapisms.
Personally, if I were in need of an anti-psychotic, i’d take the weight gain/diabetes/living a ‘normal life over voices/suicide tendencies/jail time for murder because Jesus told me so.
Are people so stupid as to not realize why these are prescription only? That you need to go see a doctor (who went to college for a long time), then your pharmacist (who went to college for a long time) to obtain these? Two professionals that have the prescribing and dispensing monopoly in this country! If this shit was as safe as water, then why wouldn’t it be OTC? Hell, Tylenol and Aspirin cause more deaths and long term ill effects than more Rx drugs do, and you don’t see people suing Bayer and McNeal (or whoever makes Tylenol)!
So America. Next time you go to the doctor and get that shiny new Rx for 200 bucks worth of medication thats going to save/prolong your life, don’t think of the greedy drug companies, nor the hard working pharmacist as you hand over your VISA card, but the selfish stupid son-of-a-bitch living in some trailer with 2.8 billion dollars hiding under his bed who put everyone in this situation.
Thank you,
Frank Precissi, PharmD, RPh
Yeah, on so much cold medication I could walk on water.
That all I have to say now. Somebody blew up the tracks on my train of thought.
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