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Well, it's an old saw in politics. There is no such thing as a free lunch. Well, apparently there are a lot of people out there who believe there is such a thing as free medicine.

And the way that they are basically making the case is that big pharma in the United States makes a lot of money. Now, there are a lot of problems with big pharma for sure. There are drugs that are really not great for people that are marketed as though they are amazing for people. The most obvious example being oxycontin. But it is also true that every single drug you take was developed by Big Pharma. Every single medicine you take was developed by Big Pharma. So if Big Pharma is

responsible for OxyCon, they're also responsible for AdVil. The Big Pharma is responsible for the

MRNA vaccine that you didn't want to take. Big Pharma is also responsible for all of the chemotherapy

medications that your mother is taking. So Big Pharma is responsible for for all of the chemotherapy medications that your mother is taking.

So Big Pharma is responsible for all of those things. And the medical advances in the United

States have led to a tremendous expansion of life expectancy in the United States.

The five-year cancer survival rate in the United States is much higher than anywhere else on

earth. The reason being we have better medicines than anywhere else on Earth. It also happens to be that we develop a huge

number of medical patents right here in the United States. Well, the reason for that is because

the United States, when it comes to drug pricing, is maybe the last country on Earth that

actively allows patients and doctors to buy drugs at the price that pharma is selling the drugs at,

as opposed to using the government to cram down particular pricing.

Now, this has been a bugaboo for a lot of politicians because they look at Canada or they

look at Germany or they look at Europe or any place else on earth, and they say, well,

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