Big Pharma Readies Effort To Counter Moore's 'Sicko'

[tbyg52]

This is a few days old, but I don't think it's been posted before--did a regular search on it, advanced search not available at the moment.

http://www.nysun.com/article/56901

The pharmaceutical industry and think tanks it backs financially are readying a multifaceted counteroffensive against Michael Moore's film about the health care industry.

"Sicko" won't hit theaters nationwide until June 29, but free-market think tanks and the drug companies are already mobilizing to try to refute its arguments against a single-payer, government-sponsored health care system.

"It definitely has to be rebutted," the director of the Pacific Research Institute, Sally Pipes, said. "I think all of us want to let Americans know that this isn't the solution to the health care crisis in the U.S."

[Mythsaje]

1. Of course not...

"It definitely has to be rebutted," the director of the Pacific Research Institute, Sally Pipes, said. "I think all of us want to let Americans know that this isn't the solution to the health care crisis in the U.S."

The solution is obviously "Keep giving us all your money and we'll treat you when we damn well feel like it."

[bamacrat]

2. The only way to counter it would be to prove it wrong..

So if they started reducing the price of prescription drugs would we all win then. And, by that same logic Michael Moore would win. But that would never happen, its hard to fight the truth.

[cureautismnow]

3. In other words, "Calling All Swiftboaters!" n/t

[RaleighNCDUer]

4. "...this isn't the solution to the health care crisis in the U.S."

There is no health care crisis in the US. There is a health INSURANCE crisis in the US. Take the insurance companies out of the picture and the health care situation heals itself.

[Rosemary2205]

5. Big Pharm can bite me you know where.

And if the hired by big Pharm stooges in Congress listen to these creeps you know where THEY can bite me too.

[LSK]

6. except its the solution for dozens of other countries???

:grr:

[lpbk2713]

7. It's not like they don't have the resources.

They could probably pay people individually not to see it and not make a dent in their money pile. Or they could get some of the Congress critters they have on a leash to have Moore sent to Gitmo.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

Oh, they are shitting themselves.

The odor in their executive suites must hit the unaccustomed like a poleaxe. They know this is gonna resonate deeply in the American psyche and it holds great potential for them being "game over".

[pilgrim907]

8. "Warning: the following Big Pharma B.S. may cause

vomiting, itching, hives, diarrhea, constipation, Crone's Disease, the clap, crabs, crotch rot, heart failure, privism, aneurysm, mononucleosis, osteonecrosis of the jaw, myelitis, indigestion, but only if you listen

[PA Democrat]

9. I guess we all need to be prepared to pay even MORE for our prescriptions/

and or health insurance to cover the expense of pharma's newest ad campaign. I'm sick of paying for all of their commercials in the form of higher drug costs than the rest of the world.

Did you know that direct consumer advertising of drugs is prohibited in every other industrialized country with the exception of the US and New Zealand. New Zealand is in the process of passing legislation to change this. Gee, I wonder why our drugs are so expensive here in the US?

[City Lights]

10. Let 'em rebut Moore's movie with a movie of their own.

And let the public decide which movie it wants to see.

[sandnsea]

11. They are

http://www.galen.org/ownins.asp?DocID=1034

[datasuspect]

12. so that is what a bullshit factory smells like

the tone is almost . . . juvenile.

this is a think tank? and they use "nyah, nyah, nyah!" rhetoric.

but that is rushian smartassery that sells so well to the vast hordes of morons out there.

[sandnsea]

17. smartassery

That's exactly right. We need to be exposing these bullshit factories so that people know where this smartassery is coming from. It doesn't do any good to just pretend it doesn't exist and that people don't believe them when they say things like the government can't even get passports issued - and you want them to provide health care?? We have got to deal with that smartassery, as intellectually annoying as that sometimes is.

[tbyg52]

18. Exactly.

That's why I posted this. Was hoping for some recs, but at least people saw it.

[City Lights]

13. Good. Sick and Sicker is one I'll be sure to miss.

Along with anything emitted from John Stossel. Good ol' _ABC to the rescue again...:eyes:

[BlooInBloo]

14. Please god, let DUers not fall for it.

[tbyg52]

15. I didn't think they would

I posted this so they would know what's going on, in case they come across any people who need to be enlightened.

[BlooInBloo]

16. I'm not as optimistic as you.

EDIT: But let's hope.

[mdmc]

19. mad

:mad: