The drug industry is out of control
The drug industry is a $1.2 trillion global behemoth. It controls every aspect of our medical products and services (“healthcare”) industry. It has captured the federal regulatory agencies like the CDC and FDA. It receives billions from federal research agencies like the National Institute of Health. It controls the practice of medicine, dominates the hospitals, physicians’ professional associations, standards of care, and medical journals. It dictates what legacy and digital media say about it through its advertising might. It spends more on lobbying Washington than any other industry.
At the same time the drug industry is a growing source of illness and death. Medical errors, many of which involve pharmaceutical products, are the third leading cause of death in the United States. Pharmaceutical caused disasters such as the opioid epidemic have shortened American life expectancy. So has the COVID epidemic which most probably was the result of a lab leak of organisms developed in Wuhan by US financed gain-of-function experiments. We are also seeing huge increases in non-COVID related deaths beginning in 2021 from lockdown-related deaths, delayed healthcare, vaccine injuries, and other causes crying for further investigation.
The Problem:
Our Solution:
1. Cut drug prices
One in four Americans struggle to pay for prescription drugs. Recent policy changes are a step in the right direction but more needs to be done to ease the financial burden.
2. No coerced use of medical products
The use of medical products must never be coerced. Not to work, get an education, travel, or participate in society. Individuals should make health decisions for themselves, and parents should make healthcare decisions for their minor children, without coercion from the state or any other entity. Medical information should be private. Employers, colleges, theaters, restaurants, etc. have no right or need to know the medical status of an employee, customer, or student.
3. Ban all direct-to-consumer advertising and marketing by drug companies
The US is one of only two countries that allow drugs to be advertised like soap. US drug companies now spend more on marketing than on research. Advertising dollars silence any dissenting voices in the media. Direct-to-consumer drug advertising has only existed since the1990s, and it is an experiment that failed.
4. Reform the federal regulatory and research agencies
The federal agencies responsible for pharmaceutical oversight need reform. COVID policy exposed a stream of lies, fear mongering, and panicked decision making, with trillions of dollars of spending, including $50 billion for vaccines, directed by these agencies.
Safe, effective drugs, like Ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, were suppressed. Life-saving early treatment was sacrificed for the hypothetical benefits of experimental vaccines.
Big Tech censored information contrary to the government narrative in a blatant propaganda campaign. Lockdown repression without medical rationale took hold. The result? Precious little difference in outcomes between states with and without draconian policies.
We need comprehensive hearings by both Houses of Congress to assure the scope of damage never happens again.
5. Close the revolving door between health agencies of people with conflicts-of-interest
Far too many appointees to key positions in federal health agencies and advisory committees come directly from private industry, or organizations that are dependent on drug company money, such as universities, and return to private industry after a stint in government. The “revolving door” must stop.
6. Restore legal liability for vaccines
Since 1988, vaccines manufacturers and healthcare professionals who administer vaccines face no liability for any injury caused by a shot. Yet the same drug companies that produce America’s vaccines have paid more than $50 billion in fines, settlements, and penalties since 2000. Access to the courts and essential legal rights like discovery and subpoenas need to return so that the truth comes to light. Liability protection for vaccine manufacturers has failed the American people and must end.
7. Use the highest standards for safety and efficacy tests
The double-blind randomized controlled trial (RCT) is accepted by medicine as the objective scientific methodology that produces unbiased results. But the FDA rarely requires this standard. There is no excuse not to use the highest standards possible, especially for products intended for use children.
8. Restore independence to medical journals
Pharmaceutical companies exert powerful influence over medical journals, the publications we look to for the scientific truth, through advertising and by purchasing enormous numbers of copies. Dr. Marcia Angell, former Editor-in-Chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, said "It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published.” Drug company control of medical journals must end.
9. Fix the pharmaceutical approval process
Efficacy and safety testing for pharmaceuticals is done by the companies seeking a license, and they pay huge fees directly to the FDA to finance the agency’s review. Since the FDA depends on this revenue they are effectively “captured” by their paymasters. The FDA must return to full funding from general revenue not direct payments from drug companies.