Medicine is big business.

Think about the use of that word, business.

Not care, not support, not interest, business.

Finding drugs to help you, maybe even save you, is a business.

It’s akin to you lying there bleeding from a gaping wound and needing to provide your credit card details before someone can apply pressure to the wound.

And when I say business, I really mean business.

We are talking trillions of dollars. And the CEO’s, the shareholders, the executives. You know they are making money. But how about the patients?

Oh, I’m sorry, the customers.

Because you aren’t a patient, someone ill, needing help, support, care.

You are a customer.

And you staying healthy, staying alive, that’s part of the business.

Significant, and I mean significant, profits made because of your need to be healthy, be alive.

Do you think it actually costs hundreds, maybe thousands to make those pills you need?

Or, if you broke it down, if you got the mix right, with the right chemicals, you could be healthy, you could live, for but a fraction of what they are asking for?

Would you be surprised if I told you it was true?

Would you be surprised to hear that people are already doing it?

That people are finding ways of making these drugs, that they need, for a fraction of the price, so they can actually live their lives.

It can be done. It is being done.

Because people, when they work together, for the benefit of each other, without being IN BUSINESS, can do whatever is needed to help each other move mountains.

Without a CEO or shareholder in sight.

Does that sound like a better system?

Tarik Rachid  - Comments at Medical Equality Conference