House of Paine

big pharma

    we need a real war on drugs

   one against the real cartels

     the legal  drug magi
     the ones 
   on a three decade long
   rampage

  fuck their worse
then  the giant " Despair"
   in Bunyan

   the fuckers
    are ranging

   FOOT  LOOSE
and blood lusting 
all 
   OVER THE WHOLE PLANET
    raping and  
   beating the
   financial  bejesus
   out of everyone 
    in sight 
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     i got a call from my old 
   korean comrade

   doctor
   Pill b Free 

   heres his" bloviation"
   on the big players 
   in the global 
    patent medicine game 

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   " big pharma
   that is the top twenty companies 
   world wide
   look like 
   a pure profit and waste   plague
   under the audit x-ray...

   take 
   any  run of the mill
   wholesale domestic
   market price brake out

   by share 

     marketing costs 30%

     thats all the pill pushing bull shit

   the old medicine wagon waggle

   from
   crowing at all points on tv 
   to showin 
   designer cleavage 
   in the doctor's office

   try tellin me 
    any of it 
   is a public service
   and i hope you choke
    on a flinstone vitamin
   useless useless useless

    30% waste and corruption

   and thats 
   despite providing
   ever so 
   horny MDs
 like your faithfully here 
   a lovely
   beholden dangle
   in a  tight skirt 

in fact more then one of them 

   ready 
 for frequent office visits
   and 
   god knows 
what else

   after a long day 
   i've seen some 
   gorgeous lean knees
   staring up at me that made my ...

   but fuck it i digress


the   fact remains 

   all this 
   thirty dirty percent 
   ain't  
    worth 
   a pencil dick
    to an elephant 

   healthwise
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  now comes the obvious 
the    profit parade

   first  theres
   "top"  administration 
   taking 5%

you know as reward for past brilliance
and 
   as incentive for future toppers
 

   (thats around 10 billion by the way )

   which is just hijacked profits

   leaving 
  only 
get this 
   an industry wide 
        profit margin
        of   20%

   ( compare at 5%
   for the rest of
    the corporate economy )

   the big fat fact:

   30% waste
   and 25%  total profits

      total share of expenditure 
no fucking  use 
   to any one sick 
       
     
      55%
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     yes that leaves 
for the real things 

    guess what  45 %

including 

   the actual
    full   cost of production 
                  
              30%
                  
   30%
    
                  30%
    as in
    if " a lenin type hard party" 
   could
     get its ass 
    up behind the wheel

   we could   take 
    70  % right off the top 
     at wholesale 
   and not   miss
   even  one little tingo 
   of actual medicine 

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   oh but doc what about discovery 

   well 
    thats the  remaining  
        15%
      of the wholesale dollar

that 
     goes for
   "research and development"

     but
    fellow critters

   this is  mostly me too 
   extra horn section playing bull shit 

   feature this fact

     only 7 
                   yes  7
   of 80 recent patents 

   were for really 
   " innovative products "

  why  the rest ?  

   well
first off cause they can
seeing as  
   the threshold
    of efficacy
    is
   anything 
  better then 
   a placebo 

  thats right its
 research if it ends up 

 a  placebo +

even if there are 5  similar placebo +' s
 already 

   you can take it from there 

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    truth is
    most real resaerch is 
   still done 
   on public dimes
not coprporate

   and why not?

   this way  
      
   you just
   sit back
   in your tower topping 
   board room  
   and  wait 
   to  skim 
the ivy league cream

   swipe
   the good stuff 
and at a mortar board price

  yep
them hackoffs can grab it 
from the ass hole gown gang 
for pocket jingle  

   these honorable thieves 
   are what then?

    big fish eatin littler fish
   who eat...

 and whatever happens 

"  never get  less then 
   two steps from discovery "
 usual chain re-action;

   first
   its
   uncle funded
    labs find something
   and
    then 
   the mere 
   scam/flam
    privatizing
    hustle up 
petty table scrap fed 
   "developers"
  " take in " 
   the small bait 

   and
    then
   only when if and after 
   drug and market
   are big and  stable enough 
   to gobble
    
only then
   will you hear 
   the  gulp
   of 
   big pharma 
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    " the vampires take
    it in by the gallon "
                blood bank urban myth 

   
   well its been quite a ride
since uncle started paying
 for part of the health thing here

and as always 
getting 
 more
   right away
means you 
    need 
   even more 

   as time passes by 

   like say the last 20 years 

  you could  watch 
   the drug
   share of gdp 
  grow and grow 
    
   triple in fact 

            triple  

 imagine 
   growing
    three times
    the speed
   of the surrounding economy 
for twenty years and getting feistier ever day 



   aaahhh
but 
   back then

those were the hero hours
    the golden reagan 80's


   thats where and when
   the drug  lobby boyz
   zipped thru 
   a flock of federal laws 
   like
    bayh/dole
    and
     hatch/waxman 

   that effectively
    busted any possible 
competitive market
   mechanism to pieces 

   for the profiteers 
it was  a shower of gold

   among other 
   upshots
roaring out of the mouth 
of those
 " lawful "
outrages

  take the lovely case 
of     dicked
   low price 
    generics
which 
   now
   thanx
    to a whole quiver 
   of perfectly legit  tricks
    
   we end up 
getting    ever  later 
   and  ever less often 

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     then again 
    
   more to the point 
that iz
   if folks actual lives 
   matter to u 

   there's
  
OVERSEAS

   where  
   these
same fucking  bigs
    get 
OUR DEAREST 
   Uncle Hedge
    to muscle 
      any and all  
   third world
    authorities 
   to 
   clean out 
    pirate labs
   "counterfeiting"
    their patented  products
or else get shut out of our markets....
kind of a bad boy golden rule 
 
 you all know 
the  agitprop 
   poster tableau
   for all this 
    
   the   black african
   hiv/aids auto da fe 

    imagine
    death warrents
   issued by the millions
   and 
   all coming from 
   right  up here
    in the offices
   above  uncle's
   drug kitchens


   " fuck they 
   couldn't 
   follow these 
   complex protocals anyway"

   sleep well middle america

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