He made Big Pharma donate to him!!!

and saving me from myself! time for more Abilify and another bottle of muscatel!!!

You OP suggests that because Big Pharma gave money to Obama, he has bad intent on an issue you care about, as if he controls who donates to his campaign.

keep taking it and you'll graduate to Mad Dog 2020

GTK.

“don’t worry, in the 2nd term, then he’ll be able to support marijuana reforms, because he won’t have to worry about it being used against him in a re-election campaign,”

Never heard this "guarantee" ... I wouldn't have a dollar ...

Someone just aactivated the Third Way Patrol Alarm!!!

you'll send me a DLC pin?

Stick with the manufactured outrage ... it clearly works for you ... and I get a kick out of it.

and tell me again about my manufactured outrage. this is what I've been looking at and living in since about 2009. I had big hopes that my time spent volunteering on the Obama campaign would bring reform. Obama was my last hope.

If Obama has to "fix" every person's specific problem, then he clearly can never do enough. Its not possible.

If you disagree ... walk with me and my family.

My niece at 2 had what is usually a deadly cancer. She survived, but after doing so, no insurance company would cover her for anything more than child colds and sports injuries. Which means the Kidney stones she suffered (side effect of the treatment) from were part of a PRE-EXISTING condition. My sister had to figure out how to pay to treat those.

My niece, now 16, has full coverage. She still has the stones. Now they are covered. And, if she has issues EVER AGAIN, including a new cancer, she is covered. It is very likely that Obama has saved her life.

That's my anecdote.

Obama has not fixed your situation, but he did fix one for my niece.

Here's the thing ... neither one really addresses the donations from big pharma.

I do not pretend to know your life situation, and you should not pretend to know mine, or to suggest that yours gives you some special insight into anything.

Has given me plenty of "insights" Said insight isn't "special" - it is one being shared by low income/homeless people all over the country. And best wishes for your niece. But, I can tell you where I live has been hit so hard by the crash something really needed to be done. And it wasn't.

What specifically did Obama say he was going to do?

Or, lacking that, what is it you think he must do, outside what he claimed he would do?

(and yes I'm veering off op topiuc here) no donors stopped O from starting WPA type jobs programs. And now he is telling us how we on the bottom need to "share sacrafice".

Leave pot alone and start regulating big pharma the way it sould be.

What form should the regulations you seek take?

Amorphous outrage is easy (as is a suggestion that someone you disagree with is on drugs for schizophrenia).

The more specific you are about what you want to have happen, the more seriously I will take you. Not that you should care how seriously I take you.

But if you want to make a difference, and not just rant, then you need to get very specific about what interum steps you want to see.

Don't just scream a final goal, describe the path, or paths, to reach it.

David Healy, Pharmageddon
Has American health care been highjacked by Big Pharma?
http://www.amazon.com/Pharmageddon-David-Healy/dp/0520270983

This searing indictment, David Healy's most comprehensive and forceful argument against the pharmaceuticalization of medicine, tackles problems in health care that are leading to a growing number of deaths and disabilities. Healy, who was the first to draw attention to the now well-publicized suicide-inducing side effects of many anti-depressants, attributes our current state of affairs to three key factors: product rather than process patents on drugs, the classification of certain drugs as prescription-only, and industry-controlled drug trials. These developments have tied the survival of pharmaceutical companies to the development of blockbuster drugs, so that they must overhype benefits and deny real hazards. Healy further explains why these trends have basically ended the possibility of universal health care in the United States and elsewhere around the world. He concludes with suggestions for reform of our currently corrupted evidence-based medical system.

Check out the reviews. David Healy is probably the leading world expert on SSRI drugs.

Free podcast-interview with Dr. Healy- Jefferson Exchange- October 2, 2012 Phamargeddon
http://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/jpr/id/2084251




Drugz r bad k? I mean the authoritarians have told us that for decades...and to make sure we all "got it" they kicked in our doors, shot our dogs, confiscated our property and treated us all like terrorists if we smoked plant flowers.

Where can I get my Progenitorivox?!!!

is not the way to best forward your cause.

... of people on medication. Calling for strong regulation and control of big pharma. I see those who are prescribed killer drugs as victims also.

set for mass murder. I don't know if you're just ignorant of the bigotry you're expressing or you're really willing to trash people who need medications just so you can exalt pot, but either way it casts you in a bad light.

from dangerous prescription drugs bigotry?

kind of like saying I'm demonizing smokers who develop cancer by saying the tobacco industry should be held liable.

back tomorrow!

right back to you. My beloved Sister had severe manic depression and what they then called multiple personality disorder. When she was level, she was wonderful to me. It was from her that I gained my appreciation of music and art, she could draw anything and was always up on the top music, this was in the 50's and 60s. The sad part is that in the 50's and 60's, she was the recipient of the worst the mental health system had to offer in terms of treatment and medication. My Mom kept her at home as long as she could before she eventually was going in and out of the mental hospital. Every year it got worse. I could tell when she was going up on her manic cycle. Compulsiveness, literally running up and down the stairs, obsessively following Mom around the house. Till one day she got into an argument with Mom, attacked her and nearly killed her. After that, the only time I saw her was on trips to visit her in the hospital. The medications caused her to develop a number of illnesses, she became anemic and had half her toes amputated. Not to mention what she must have endured receiving shock treatments, which was much in vogue at the time.

edit - forgot to mention - that is where she died.

So spare me the "bigotry" crap.

And sad.

I don't own guns and support stricter gun laws. I also feel if big pharma put as much money into R&D as it does into buying politicians and advertising, thus controlling the media, a lot of these tragedies might not happen.


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You know this. You're not fooling anyone.

you just called me a liar. Goodbye.