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The term '''Big Pharma''' refers to the enormously powerful pharmaceutical industry and its [[lobbying]] trade association.  Big Pharma virtually owns the [[FDA]] through intense lobbying and hiring practices, and the FDA is constantly pandering to Big Pharma by preferring use of expensive, risky new medication and [[vaccine]]s rather than safe, inexpensive medication.  Big Pharma is a major proponent of the [[transgender]] movement.<ref>[https://www.allsides.com/news/2022-03-07-1044/trans-activists-funded-big-pharma-push-biased-research-promoting-medical Trans Activists Funded By Big Pharma Push Biased Research Promoting Medical Transitions For Children]</ref><ref>[https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/03/09/new-book-follows-money-trail-insane-lie-splits-families-causes-permanent-medical-damage-authors-say/ ‘The Transgender Movement Is Actually an Industry’ by Which Big Pharma Earns ‘Obscene Profits,’ Authors Warn]</ref><ref>[https://ncc.org.au/newsweekly/life-marriage-family/58023-gender-politics-trans-ideology-awash-with-big-money/ TRANS IDEOLOGY AWASH WITH BIG MONEY FROM BIG BIOMED AND BIG PHARMA]</ref>  For the [[2024 presidential election]], Big Pharma employees gave $1.7 million to [[Kamala Harris]]'s campaign, compared with only $300,000 to [[Donald Trump]]'s.<ref>https://www.pharmavoice.com/news/big-pharma-campaign-election-pac-donations/731124/</ref> '''''Big Pharma is second to only the [[Deep State]] in controlling the federal government'''''.

The term '''Big Pharma''' refers to the enormously powerful pharmaceutical industry and its [[lobbying]] trade association.  Big Pharma virtually owns the [[FDA]] through intense lobbying and hiring practices, and the FDA is constantly pandering to Big Pharma by preferring use of expensive, risky new medication and [[vaccine]]s rather than safe, inexpensive medication.  Big Pharma is a major proponent of the [[transgender]] movement.<ref>[https://www.allsides.com/news/2022-03-07-1044/trans-activists-funded-big-pharma-push-biased-research-promoting-medical Trans Activists Funded By Big Pharma Push Biased Research Promoting Medical Transitions For Children]</ref><ref>[https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/03/09/new-book-follows-money-trail-insane-lie-splits-families-causes-permanent-medical-damage-authors-say/ ‘The Transgender Movement Is Actually an Industry’ by Which Big Pharma Earns ‘Obscene Profits,’ Authors Warn]</ref><ref>[https://ncc.org.au/newsweekly/life-marriage-family/58023-gender-politics-trans-ideology-awash-with-big-money/ TRANS IDEOLOGY AWASH WITH BIG MONEY FROM BIG BIOMED AND BIG PHARMA]</ref>  For the [[2024 presidential election]], Big Pharma employees gave $1.7 million to [[Kamala Harris]]'s campaign, compared with only $300,000 to [[Donald Trump]]'s.<ref>https://www.pharmavoice.com/news/big-pharma-campaign-election-pac-donations/731124/</ref> '''''Big Pharma is second to only the [[Deep State]] in controlling the federal government'''''.

The pharmaceutical industry, which sells [[vaccine]]s and medications, is one of the largest industries and certainly the most politically savvy, depending heavily on its political influence for its profits.  The term "Biotech" may also be applied to pharmaceutical companies, though this term is usually reserved for the smaller pharmaceutical companies or those small pharma companies that focus on the production of more "biologicals" (e.g. antibodies, enzymes) rather than small molecule drugs. Profits are very high but unstable, since it commonly takes more than a decade and potentially billions of dollars to bring a new drug to market, and many promising drugs fail to make it due to safety, efficacy, and absorption issues. Once on the market, patents protect it for 17 years. In recent years the international industry has been consolidated as very large companies buy out large companies and biotechs. Along with improved nutrition and sanitation, the drugs produced by the pharmacological industry can be credited for much of the extension of the human lifespan in the 20th and 21st centuries.

The pharmaceutical industry, which sells [[vaccine]]s and medications, is one of the largest industries and certainly the most politically savvy, depending heavily on its political influence for its profits.  '''''In an example of [[liberal denial]], [[Wikipedia]] has an entry about [[Big Tech]] but refuses to have an entry about Big Pharma'''''.

 

The term "Biotech" may also be applied to pharmaceutical companies, though this term is usually reserved for the smaller pharmaceutical companies or those small pharma companies that focus on the production of more "biologicals" (e.g. antibodies, enzymes) rather than small molecule drugs. Profits are very high but unstable, since it commonly takes more than a decade and potentially billions of dollars to bring a new drug to market, and many promising drugs fail to make it due to safety, efficacy, and absorption issues. Once on the market, patents protect it for 17 years. In recent years the international industry has been consolidated as very large companies buy out large companies and biotechs. Along with improved nutrition and sanitation, the drugs produced by the pharmacological industry can be credited for much of the extension of the human lifespan in the 20th and 21st centuries.

[[File:Medical$.jpg|thumb|150x|Prescription drugs account for 10% of medical costs]]

[[File:Medical$.jpg|thumb|150x|Prescription drugs account for 10% of medical costs]]

In 1994 Pharma played a central role in defeating the Clinton health care package.  In 2009, however, Big Pharma cut a deal with the Democrats, promising to cut drug costs by $80 billion over the next decade, and to support the Senate bill; in return they were promised they would not be hit by price controls and foreign drugs would not be allowed in.  

In 1994 Pharma played a central role in defeating the Clinton health care package.  In 2009, however, Big Pharma cut a deal with the Democrats, promising to cut drug costs by $80 billion over the next decade, and to support the Senate bill; in return they were promised they would not be hit by price controls and foreign drugs would not be allowed in.