I Prayed have prayed
Father, You care about our health. Help us to trust You and seek You first for the healing You provide. You created our bodies and know us better than anyone else. We also ask that the pharmaceutical industry would be reformed to reflect care of people over profits and personal agenda. Amen.
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Prayer Point: Big Pharma is embedded into our world. Pray that the hidden practices of the Big Pharma industry would be unveiled and that reform would take place, bringing truth and God-honoring solutions through medicine would be the standard.  

Before COVID-19, Big Pharma’s reputation was suffering due to public outrage over mounting drug prices. Vaccine and anti-viral research went largely neglected by pharma companies because large-scale, one-shot vaccines for epidemics that generally affect poorer countries weren’t profitable. When the COVID-19 pandemic abruptly arrived and became a wealthy country problem, federal funding started pouring in. Presently, polls show that Pharma’s reputation has hit a new high.

Without a doubt, the pandemic has led many to question whether profits rather than needs drive the focus of the NIH and Big Pharma’s medical research. With the government’s heavy subsidizing for drug development and turning a blind eye to price gouging, pharmaceutical companies, their CEOs, and investors “stand to make billions from COVID vaccines, in one of the most spectacular examples yet of COVID profiteering.” Indeed, scientists indicate that for years to come, we will need COVID-19 vaccines. It is unclear how much profit Big Pharma will make from COVID-19 vaccines, but Corporate Watch lays out five strategies pharmaceutical world leaders follow to make money.

    1. Follow Profit, Not Need. Pharma follows the profit, not the needs of its patients. “High-value” patients—those with the potential for long-term drug use, are the best prospect for drug research and development. Pharma sees them as lifelong patients, especially in the United States, “where prices are highest, and with chronic conditions requiring repeat prescriptions.”
    2. Patent Everything. Pharma companies hold patents-guaranteeing their “intellectual property” rights on new medicines, which means, during the life of the patent, which is typically 20 years, no other company can produce their drug without their permission. With no competition to undercut them, patents give pharma companies legal monopolies to set high prices. A 1995 World Trade Organization (WTO) agreement called TRIPS commands governments worldwide to enforce the intellectual property system. During COVID, governments in India, Africa, and NGOs have asked the WTO for a waiver from specific provisions of the TRIP agreement, which would allow them to manufacture their own vaccines at cost price—rather than wait until 2023. While no decision has been made, the idea is opposed by some wealthy countries… 
    3. Lobby, Lobby, Lobby. Big Pharma is powerful with friends in high places. In the U.S., over the last 22 years, pharma companies and industry groups have spent $4.45 billion, lobbying politicians. Big Pharma spends more money on lobbying in DC than any other industry—paying two times more than insurance, which is the second-highest spender. And the U.S. has the highest drug prices in the world. According to OpenSecrets, the industry employs over 1,450 lobbyists, 66% of whom are former government employees. Additionally, governments are big pharma customers, paying billions in taxpayer money to purchase their drugs… 

What are your thoughts about how pharmaceutical companies operate? Share your prayer for a revealing of truth and for positive change to be brought to this industry!

(Excerpted from UncoverDC. Article by Michelle Edwards. Photo Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images).

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Pauline
August 13, 2021

No scientist or medical person should be able to have ANY financial gain from ANY drug! Having the ability to make millions off of a drug they have an interest in, makes that scientist or doctor very biased! In other words, the game is rigged for pharmaceutical companies, doctors, scientists, ALWAYS!
Negative results from all tests or trials should have to be made public, no exception! Why aren’t they now??
Until the public starts to loudly complain and speak up, nothing will change. Even then, it would take lots of time and money.
Father, please continue to shed your light on lies, corruption, deceit, that is rampant in the pharmaceutical companies, along with the scientists and doctors who have made themselves wealthy on the backs of innocent American people.

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Joni Debord
August 12, 2021

This was very informative and interesting. More people need to be made aware.

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Herb s Johnston
August 12, 2021

Ben Goldacre ..”Medicine is broken. And I genuinely believe that if patients and the public ever fully understand what has been done to them—what doctors, academics and regulators have permitted—they will be angry. On this, only you can be the judge.”
In response- for the last year, or almost 1 1/2 years-, JFK jr. has been traversing the country with his message on how he has learned through his life as a Kennedy, basically, being in law in Washington- how these disorders and diseases- were listed as warning and ..”POSSIBLE”.. side effects, on the paper circular inserts tightly machine folded inside of medicine boxes of over the counter and prescription ..medicines-and drugs, in the 60’s and 70’s.
These warnings of side effects, and also potential contraindications, were actual toxic and intended dosings, given to people, who then often unwittingly overstepped the contraindications, as they(we) continued to be convinced that more and more ‘medicines’ were needed.
After that, we started seeing the new “medicines ” come out, released by big pharma, that were the solutions” for the “potential” sicknesses listed on those paper inserts as warning side effects.. IE; they gave us the sicknesses, then gave the ”cures”-..which made us sicker.
ADD, ADHD, and a host of immunological and related disorders suddenly began creeping into our conversation and lives. Then came all the ‘flu’ viruses,…that we had only rarely seen before. After the year 2000, there were at least 10..think about it. I remember hearing that they were being blamed on the increased influx of immigrants from 3rd world countries that had not been here in such great waves before…but really, these things were foisted upon us by big pharma. Kennedy has been sounding the alarm this entire past 15 to 18 months, appearing at various churches across the country. He was on Calvary Godspeak evening you tube program Vintage McCoy(Pastor Rob McCoy’s evening program 7pm)about 2 months ago

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MN
August 12, 2021

My father has been saying that Pharma and it’s lobbyists have been crooked for decades. But he is still under the deception that “government” needs to be the overseer and corrector of pharma – not understanding that only ‘honest’ government or officials or corporate honesty can bring about that desired result.

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Denise
August 12, 2021

Father God,
You are our Hope and our sustaining power. Without You, life would seize to exist. Out of Your great love for us, You gave us free will and we chose sin. As a result we all suffer the consequences of that sin. Unless hearts receive Christ, they will continue to be self serving, greedy and deceived! Only You can remove the veil that keeps many from recognizing their own sin and their desperate need for Christ. Lord, we ask that You continue to show mercy on those who may be seeking or who are questioning their depraved condition. Send people, places and things that will lead them to YOU! Lord, You are so very patient with us. Your loving kindness is beyond measure. We thank You and praise You for You are worthy! Let the light of Christ burn brighter during these dark days. Restore what the enemy has stolen from us and bring chaos and destruction to his camp. You are God and the battle has already been won! Thank You Lord Jesus! Thank You! In Your Name we pray! Amen

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Rochelle
August 12, 2021

100 new billionaires, several in China, have emerged on the world scene because of profits from this virus. Something to think about.

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    Lynn
    August 12, 2021

    No surprise. I started calling it the scamdemic in April of last year when I saw who was benefiting from it & profiting from it.

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