WASHINGTON — A crowd of roughly 200 progressive protestors planted themselves on the ground in the middle of a normally bumper-to-bumper four-lane corridor here Monday with a firm message for the drug industry: get out of our way.
The crowd wasn’t there — in front of the trade association PhRMA’s headquarters — to protest a specific drug’s price spike or an unsafe drug. Instead, they were seated in solidarity with the speaker at the front of the crowd: Ady Barkan, a 34-year old activist with ALS confined to a wheelchair
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Oh, Lord…
Healthcare is a human right. Change my mind.
Medicare for All is the only patient-centric solution to healthcare. A for-profit health industry will (and does) allow patients to come to preventable harm before accepting lesser profits. To them, we are provender.
THIS ONLY SHOWS OR DISPLAYS THE DOUBLE STANDARDS WITH SOME OF US HUMAN BEINGS .HERE IT IS THAT WE HAVE A PHARMACEUTICAL EMPIRE .WHICH HAS AND CONTINUES TO CAUSES AND CREATES MASSIVE DEATHS OF OVER DOSED PAIN KILLERS BY DRUG ADDICTS . YET STILL SOME OF US YEARNING FOR HAND OUTS AND FREE ENTITLEMENTS ARE OUT THERE DEMONSTRATING AGAINST THIS EMPIRE OF CRIMES . FOR MYSELF I WOULD HAVE NOTHING AT ALL TO DO WITH THIS EMPIRE OF HAVOC .MORE TO COME .MONDAY ,APRIL ,29, 2019 AT 4 .19 P.M DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME .N.Y.C