Thursday, July 29, 2010

Why don't pharmaceutical companies donate more to third world countries? (A rhetorical question/rant)?

There is a commercial on TV begging me for money to help alleviate the suffering of third world leprosy victims who cannot afford the $27/month for the one year drug treatment. It occurred to me that there are pharmaceutical companies who have gone out of their way to produce drugs specifically for people who cannot afford them. Since leprosy is rare indeed in industrialized countries, the drug manufacturers are counting on us as their target consumers to buy the treatments for the poor of the world. These same companies spend billions on R%26amp;D to ensure that white western men have full heads of hair and erections to match. We white western men are then shamed into giving to worthwhile causes such as leprosy treatment. My question is why can鈥檛 the pharmaceuticals forget about all the useless designer drugs and focus on actual ailments? We have drugs to sleep, then wake up, to fight depression which may or not exist, to prevent baldness, to get hard, to skip menstruation, to calm a hyped up kid who鈥檚 parents turn around and give them ice-cappuccino鈥檚, and every ailment real and imagined under the sun. I know that there is an infrastructure built around third world aid, and the volunteers need resources, but couldn鈥檛 this be paid by the billions of dollars industry preying on a hypochondriac culture rather than rely on middle(soon to be lower)class people鈥檚 donations?Why don't pharmaceutical companies donate more to third world countries? (A rhetorical question/rant)?
There's no money to be made in the 3rd world. Never forget that profit motive drives all innovation. Every damned bit of it.Why don't pharmaceutical companies donate more to third world countries? (A rhetorical question/rant)?
Because they are GREEDY and dont care
Follow the $$$money$$$ trail; ';the LOVE of money is the root to all evil';

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