Again the very industry aka Bigpharma (at least in USA) that rails against them claiming the other political party doesnt want to fight to lower the cost of drug perscriptions (cause the other party sides with bigpharma...)

Well, somehow Bigpharma isnt offering us a low price. The shit is free. Every shot. Booster included.

I think of instances like the drug co. Eli Lilly
At one time Eli Lilly payroll:

Former President George Herbert Walker Bush (one-time member of the Eli Lilly board of directors)
Former CEO of Enron, Ken Lay (one-time member of the Eli Lilly board of directors)
George W. Bush’s former director of Management and Budget, Mitch Daniels (a former Eli Lilly vice president)
George W. Bush’s Homeland Security Advisory Council member, Sidney Taurel (current CEO of Eli Lilly)
The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (a recipient of Eli Lilly funding)


And how IMO Bush Sr. suckered the American people into claiming- Democrats want to tax you, but I will force bigpharma to pay their fair price. What happened? The taxation was minimized- but so, too was the control the people had...as a result big pharma paying....for decades may have made Congress and/or FDA dependent on their $$$.

What Bush Sr did: Prescription Drug User Fee Act
Congress clearly likes PDUFA as the act has been renewed five times since 1992.
https://ethics.harvard.edu/lab/blog/312-risky-drugs

See: Is The FDA Being Compromised By Pharma Payments?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnlam...h=338785d52830


in JLME aka Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics (JLME), Donald W. Light of the School of Public Health, University of Medicine & Dentistry of NJ, wrote an article entitled “Risky Drugs: Why The FDA Cannot Be Trusted”.

His claim since Bush enacted that law- the industry started making large contributions to the FDA for reviewing its drug.
They also make large contributions to Congressmen- since then the FDA has sped up the review process with the result that drugs approved are significantly more likely to cause serious harm, hospitalizations, and deaths.”

His claim: pharma paid congressmen to sponsor legislation that results in the FDA being beholden to pharma for funding for its work.

Congress clearly likes PDUFA as the act has been renewed five times since 1992.

PDUFA-V was approved in 2012 under Obama.
In 1995, The actual user fee charged to each company filing an NDA in 1995 was $208,000.
In 2014, the user fee will be $2,169,100.


Is that a good or bad thing that the amount increases? Good for the people or the company or the politicians?


I did look at the opposite side- A John LaMattina disputes the concept of Bigpharma controlling the FDA since the law was enacted. However I am skeptical of him because when I looked at HIS history...he was Senior Partner at PureTech and was previously President, Pfizer Global Research. I would expect for him to defend pharmeceutical companies.