Me yasa kuka ɗaga farashin vial ɗin insulin daga $200 zuwa $1,500? Me yasa Actimmune, don mummunan osteopetrosis, ana sayar da dala 350 a Biritaniya da $26,000 a Amurka? Me yasa Novartis ke cajin $475,000 don sabon sa ciwon daji magani? Me yasa maganin gallstone Chenodal ke kashe dala 42,570 a wata?
Idan mambobin kwamitin kudi na majalisar dattawa yi wadannan tambayoyi daga cikin shugabannin masana'antar harhada magunguna bakwai da ke ba da shaida a wannan makon akan Tudun, tabbas za su ji, "saboda za mu iya."
Jam'iyyar riba mara kunyar Pharma da wuya a rasa. Ya fara da tallace-tallacen talabijin na magungunan sa mafi tsada, wanda aka raba shi cikin tallace-tallace mai tsanani na magungunan kwayoyin allura mai lamba 5, har ma yana da tashar jiragen ruwa a ƙasashen waje inda yake ƙoƙarin haɗawa da harajin Amurka. Ee, Amurka tana biyan harajin da take rayuwa akai.
Yanzu, ko Congress yana kuka baffa.
Pharma yana da masu fafutuka biyu ga kowane memba na Majalisa. Ya fi kashe kuɗi akan lobbying fiye da tabar sigari, mai da ƴan kwangilar tsaro a hade. An kama gwamnatin Amurka.
Kuna son misalin sanyi? The CDC Foundation wanda ke karɓar miliyoyin daga kamfanoni (ba wai yana shafar manufofi ko wani abu ba) ya lissafa a matsayin masu ba da gudummawa Abbott, AbbVie, Bayer, AstraZeneca, Merck, Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals, Eli Lilly, Amgen, Genentech, Gileyad da ƙari masu yawa. (Mutane da yawa suna hasashe shi ya sa CDC ta ba da damar amfani da sunanta a tallace-tallacen Gileyad don maganin Hep C mai girma?)
Har zuwa 2010, PhRMA, babbar ƙungiyar masu fafutuka ta Pharma, tsohon ɗan majalisar Louisiana ne ke jagoranta. Billy Tauzin wanda ya yi murabus daga Majalisa inda ya jagoranci kwamitin da ke kula da harkar magunguna sai nan da nan ya sake bayyana a matsayin shugaban PhRMA inda ya zana albashin dala miliyan biyu. Babu rikici na sha'awa a can.
Tauzin ya taka muhimmiyar rawa wajen kiwon Dokar Magungunan Magunguna ta Medicare ta hanyar Majalisa wanda ya hana tattaunawar gwamnati na rage farashin magunguna da shigo da Kanada. "Yana da wani bakin ciki sharhi game da siyasa a Washington cewa wani memba na Congress wanda ingiza ta cikin wani babban yanki na doka da ke amfana da miyagun ƙwayoyi masana'antu, samun aikin jagorancin wannan masana'antu," Public Citizens Shugaba Joan Claybrook ya ce.
Kashi biyu bisa uku na Pharma lobbyists a baya sun yi aiki ga Majalisa ko hukumomin tarayya sun ba da rahoton New York Times. Wani mataimaki ga marigayi tsohon dan majalisar Michigan John D. Dingell yanzu yana aiki da PhRMA, kuma mataimaki ga tsohon Sanatan Iowa Tom Harkin, wanda shine shugaban kwamitin kula da lafiya na majalisar dattijai "yanzu shine babban mai fafutukar kare hakkin Merck." Gary Andres, tsohon darektan ma'aikata na Kwamitin Makamashi da Kasuwanci na House a yanzu yana son kamfanonin fasahar kere kere. Kuma jerin suna ci gaba.
Bayan kama Majalisa, ba za ku yi tunanin Pharma yana buƙatar fara'a ba. Amma duk da haka yana kashe miliyoyin ƙoƙarin shawo kan jama'a yana da muradinmu a zuciya yayin da yake haɓaka haraji da kuɗin kula da lafiya. Kwanan nan, "Kamfanonin Biopharmaceutical na Amurka" suna gudanar da yaƙin neman zaɓe na "Go Boldly", suna ba da damar aikinsu tare da layin biyan kuɗi "nan ga izinin kasa."
Ee, Pharma ya san abubuwa da yawa game da "iznin gazawa." Ƙarshe 20 An cire magungunanta daga kasuwa a cikin 'yan shekarun nan saboda suna da haɗari sosai - bayan an yi mafi yawan kuɗi ba shakka. Sun hada da Vioxx, Bextra, Baycol, Trovan, Meridia, Seldane, Hismanal, Darvon, Raxar, Redux Mylotarg, Lotronex, Propulsid, phenylpropanolamine (PPA), Prexige, phenacetin, Oraflex, Omniflox, Posicor, Serzone da Duract. A halin yanzu, Humira ita ce mafi kyawun sayar da magungunan magani a duniya duk da cewa tsarin garkuwar jikin sa yana kiran tarin tarin fuka, cututtuka masu mutuwa, melanoma, lymphoma, "cututtukan da ba a saba gani ba a cikin yara da matasa" kuma, a cikin rahoton kwanan nan, kuturta. Shin Sanatoci za su yi wa Richard Gonzalez, Shugaba na AbbVie, wanda ke yin Humira?
Pharma ya sami mafi yawan magungunan sa masu tsada da aka amince da su ta hanyar nuna "marasa lafiya" a gaban FDA da bangarorin inshora. Me zai faru lokacin da Pharma captains kansu ana yin faretin ne a gaban kwamitin kudi na majalisar dattawa a wannan makon? Shin za a iya horar da wannan masana'antar mara kunya?
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