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1   curious2   2015 Jun 8, 11:45am  

The article says the Governor wanted more $ from Obamneycare but needed support among conservatives, so the police (many of whom report to the Governor and all of whom depend on him to support them) obeyed and said they support it. BTW, police also support the drug war, for the same reason. Tovbot never finds police credible about anything, and usually criticizes them, until some police somewhere say something tovbot wants desperately to say, at which point tovbot wants everybody to believe them.

Meanwhile, this thread is yet another automated promotion of Obamneycare brought to you by tovbot, an owned subsidiary of PhRMA:

tovarichpeter says

my son, whose parents were divorced and had difficulty holding jobs, is now a biophysicist at Novartis

For more about PhRMA & Obamneycare, read how "Big Pharma colluded with the White House at the public's expense."

If PhRMA hadn't turned NIH into its own R&D department for daily pills, biophysicists might be able to work independently to invent new cures instead of PhRMA revenue models.

If tovbot's spawn got a job working for the Fed, PatNet readers might be bombarded with endless automated threads daily exhorting us all to buy mortgage backed securities. Although perhaps not spam, tovbot's automated threads illustrate the original Monty Python "spam" sketch.

If the answer to free speech is more speech, then the answer to tovbot's automatic pro-Novartis threads would be something like this:

Prosecutors in Tokyo raided the offices of the Swiss drug maker Novartis on Wednesday as part of an investigation into the alleged use of manipulated data to promote its best-selling blood pressure drug Diovan.

or this:

India's drug regulator has asked Novartis to explain "violations" in papers relating to the manufacturing origin of a veterinary drug, with a European agency having ruled that the document the Swiss company submitted was fake.

or this:

"Obamacare has specifically made negotiating drug prices by the federal government illegal for volume discount purchases, making many drugs unaffordable for patients.

Some, like Novartis' drug Gleevec, cost up to $90,000 per year for cancer treatment for patients, making them unaffordable for thousands suffering from leukemia. Most people in other countries pay for a small fraction of drug costs, but U.S. taxpayers have paid for most of the research and development through the National Institute of Health grants to academic and small private institutions. All the while drug companies reap the monopoly patent-induced profits."

It's tough to compete with a company that manipulates data, submits fake documents, and bribes politicians to mandate monopoly profits off the results of government funded research. It's even tougher if the company is part of an industry group that manipulates government research budgets to convert medical problems into chronic revenue models, rather than finding cures that would restore actual health. Finally, it may become impossible when that industry uses those monopoly profits to buy a tsunami of advertising, PR, and propaganda promoting the legislation that enables the game to continue. I suppose if you can't beat them, join them, but don't expect everyone else to applaud.

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