Healthy profit margins

There’s a new way to make meth: take a bunch of pseudoephedrine pills and shake ’em up in a pop bottle. Presto! Addiction!

And why is pseudoephedrine still marketed? Not because it is necessarily a better cold remedy, but because drug companies make huge money on it. Result: You get a bunch of meth addicts living on your block and messing up your mental health.

And why are these same Big Pharma companies pouring millions upon millions of dollars into the war against publicly financed health care? Same reason. Money!

If you’re curious about why a company does something seemingly illogical, follow the money. Insurance companies and Big Pharma are dead set against a public option because it is endangering their huge, fabulously wealthy bureaucracies.

Now it gets weird. Why have so many Americans been duped by propaganda from pharmaceutical and insurance companies? Not all of them have been paid to fake being duped, so it isn’t the money. Must be … hmmm … stubborn adherence to notions not thought through?

Well, think on this. Tell me one thing insurance companies bring to the table regarding health care. They are the fat, slurping hog between you and your medical needs.

Nancy Runyan

Spokane Valley