Funny but True Facts About Big Pharma, Bill Maher
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And finally, new rule if you believe you need to take all the pills,
the pharmaceutical industry says you do,
...then you're already on drugs.
Yes it's that time in the campaign where all candidates are presenting their health care proposals
Hillary's covers childrens teeth
Edward's has one that includes maintaining gorgeous shiny hair
And Barack Obama involves going on an operation
...and everyone gets a gastric by-pass
But none of the plans address the real problem
We will not stop being sick, untill we stop making ourselves sick
Because
Because there was a point, where even the most universal government health program can not help you
They can't outlaw unhealthy food or alcohol or cigarettes...
Just part sadly
Because you see the government is not you nanny.
They are your dealer
And they subsidize illness in America
They have to, there is too much money in it
You see there is no money in healthy people
...and there is no money in dead people.
The money is in the middle
People who are alive - sort of - but with one or more chronic conditions, that puts them in need of medication....
Fifty years ago children didn't even get type two diabetes
Now it is an emerging epidemic
As are a long list of ailments which used to be rare and have now been mainstreamed
Things like asthma and autism and acid reflux and arthiritis, alergies, adult acne, attention deficit disorder
...and that's just the A's.
Doesn't anybody anybody wonder why we live with all this illness?
I will tell you why
At the LA county fair last week they were serving something called fried coke
Now, my first thought was gosh, what a waste of a perfectly good 8-ball.
But no. They actually poured a coca-cola sirrup into a deep frier
Then put it into a cup and topped it with sugar and whip-cream and cherry.
Because, you know, cherry is "good" for you.
Would it be really that much more unhealthy to get mollested by one of the carnies?
In Hillary Clinton's health plan the words "exercise" and "nutrition" appear once.
The word "drugs" fourteen times. Just as the pharmaceutical companies wanted.
You know, their ad-weasels love to say: When diet and exercise fail..
But diet and exercise don't fail. A new study shows, that exercise
is just as good cure for depression as the pills.
So ask your doctor if getting off your ass is good for you.
If Republicans can sell the idea of preventive war,
Democrats can get us interested in the idea of preventive medicine
Someone should stand up and say, that the answer is not another pill.
The answer is spinach.
Ok. Not spinach. Turns out that crap will kill you.
But you know what I mean.
All right, that's our show, thank you very much!