Reply #38: If you were to put it as [View All]

'Big Pharma selling drugs that we DO need for diseases that we DO have, at prices so high that those who need them most cannot afford them!"

then I might agree with you.

I dislike the profit motive in medicine, and support socialized medicine, which exists in my country. But to make the leap from 'profiteering on medicines is bad; therefore medicines are bad' is like saying 'landlords who exploit their tenants are bad; therefore homes are bad'.

And I don't work for Big Pharma. I just happen to have a medical condition, for which appropriate medication has revolutionized my quality of life. And I'm not prepared to lie down and die, or become an invalid when I don't have to, just to spite 'Pharma'!