Big Pharma blackmails Greece; halts medicine supply over cash demands
Jun 14, 2010
(NaturalNews) In the midst of runaway economic problem in Greece, the
pharmaceutical industry has decided to blackmail the nation and halt
shipments of medicines to Greece until it agrees to pay full price for
the drugs. In order to cut costs during its severe debt crisis, Greece
had announced it would pay drug companies 25 percent less for their
products, but this loss of profit was enough to convince several
pharmaceutical companies supplying key drugs to the country to initiate
their own medical blockade where they simply refuse to deliver any more medicines.
In
doing this, Big Pharma shows its true character. When the profits are
flowing and the companies are raking in full-price profits, they're
you're best friend. But when budgets get tight and everybody is asked
to take a cut, Big Pharma betrays your country and its citizens,
withholding medicines in a thinly-veiled blackmail attempt to force you
to cough up more cash.
The Big Pharma betrayalSuch is
the danger of any nation depending on the pharmaceutical industry. If
nations based their health care systems on natural products such as
healing foods, herbs, and nutritional supplements, they couldn't be
held hostage by patent-holding drug companies that will obviously use
their medicines as economic weapons to try to extort yet more profits out of a nation.
Pharmaceutical
companies are determined to get their profits, you see, no matter what
the cost. If a few thousand people have to die during a pharmaceutical
blockade, that's a small price to pay for them ensuring years of
billion-dollar profits as a result.
That drug companies would
engage in this behavior exposes the real scam of drug-based medicine.
Drug companies approach nations with the false promise that their
patented chemicals will make people well. And yet they don't. In
reality, pharmaceuticals only cause more disease requiring more pharmaceuticals. There is no such thing as a "pharmaceutical cure" for any disease.
If anything, using pharmaceuticals only creates more dependence
on pharmaceuticals. This cycle of drug-symptom-drug continues until Big
Pharma has most of your nation hooked on dangerous, high-profit
chemicals. And if you try to negotiate a lower price, they'll yank your
chain and cut off their supply, leaving your entire population without
medical options. All during this, by the way, they will also attack
dietary supplements and healing foods, claiming those are all quack
products while only their own patented chemicals have any medical merit.
It's
all so blatantly obvious, isn't it? These companies don't care about
your health; they only care about profits and market share. They are
only your friend for as long as you keep writing those inflated checks
that buy their drugs at ridiculous mark-ups such as 65,000 percent of
the cost of ingredients.
Danish drug companies blackmail GreeceSo
far, two Danish pharmaceutical companies have announced their blackmail
efforts targeting Greece: Leo Pharma and Novo Nordisk.
Leo
Pharma is withholding distribution of its anti blood-clotting drug,
sending Greece's pharmacies and hospitals into a panic. (Gee, don't
these people know omega-3 oils will accomplish the same thing?)
A
few days ago, Novo Nordisk halted supplies of its insulin product,
leaving Greece's diabetics with few options (and there are a LOT of
diabetics running around that country, remember My Big Fat Greek
Wedding?).
The BBC is now reporting:
"Greek government
officials believe the Danish companies are blackmailing Athens because
they monopolise the market with certain key drugs. Stefanos Combinos,
the director general of the economy ministry, told the BBC that Greece
was one of the three most expensive countries in Europe for medicines.
He said pharmaceutical companies had enjoyed great profits out of
Greece over the decades and had an obligation to accept price
reductions."
Too bad, Greece! This is what you get when you
deal with the devil. You would have been better off favoring natural
remedies over pharmaceuticals, and had you done that, you wouldn't be
in this mess!
I wonder how many people will die from lack of
insulin drugs or anti blood clotting medicines because of this Big
Pharma blackmail attempt? I also wonder how long it will take for Greek
patients to simply turn to natural, alternative remedies that can
accomplish the same thing as these drugs but without all the toxic side
effects?
Any nation that lives by pharmaceuticals will die by them.
The
drug industry is not your friend. It is in business to make money,
period. And it will do anything and everything it can to make as much
money as possible regardless of whose lives it will risk in the process.
Your
life means nothing to these drug companies compared to the value of
their bottom-line monopoly profits. If you don't believe me, just ask
the Greek government.
Sources for this story include:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/eu...
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