Actor and comedian Woody Harrelson is making waves among conservatives and upsetting liberals and the establishment media with his comments about Big Pharma profiteering and the Orwellian lockdown measures enforced by the Biden administration during the pandemic.
During his fifth hosting gig for “Saturday Night Live,” Harrelson compared what the American public went through in 2020-2021 to an outlandish dystopian Hollywood movie script that became a reality, calling out the greedy oligopoly that Big Pharma has become, in which a small group of companies controls the market, upheld by a complicit government.
Harrelson’s criticism of Big Pharma and big government is not new. In a viral clip from HBO star Bill Maher’s podcast “Club Random,” Harrelson said, “Think of the billions of dollars that have gone to Big Pharma … but I was getting back to my original point, the last people I would trust with my health is Big Pharma and big government because neither one of those strike me as caring entities.”
Maher went on to agree with Harrelson, arguing that vitamin D should have been made a priority after data showed COVID-19 is especially dangerous to people with low levels of vitamin D.
Harrelson added, “Ivermectin got made into a ‘horse tranquilizer’ … hydroxychloroquine got made ridiculous, and there was only one thing that could work and that’s the vaccine, right? So, ultimately, because of that, billions of dollars was made.”
While Harrelson’s outrage at the billions of dollars being made by huge corporations would be typical of most left-leaning entertainers, he rightly touched on the fact that what Big Pharma has become is a greedy oligopoly, in which control of the market by a small group of companies is upheld by a complicit government. Companies like Pfizer likely knew that if people were allowed medical freedom and choice in the treatment of COVID-19, they would have made far less money, so they were happy to contribute to the demonization of cheaper treatment options.
Additionally, the Biden administration-backed vaccine mandates saw tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of Americans lose their jobs if they did not accept a vaccine from one of these “drug cartels” as Harrelson described in his “SNL” speech.
According to Pharmacychecker.com, hydroxychloroquine can be obtained for between 27 cents and $1.81 per 200 milligram tablet, a provably effective drug in combatting COVID symptoms. In contrast, the federal government has so far purchased 1.2 billion doses of Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines combined, at a cost of $25.3 billion, or a weighted average purchase price of $20.69 per dose.
Now that these companies have cornered the market on these inoculations, it is expected that prices will increase even further. The Biden Administration has announced that it no longer has funding, absent further Congressional action, to make further purchases and has begun to prepare for the transition of COVID-19 vaccines to the commercial market. This means that manufacturers will be negotiating prices directly with insurers and purchasers, not just the federal government, and prices are expected to rise. Pfizer and Moderna have signaled likely ranges that are three to four times greater than the pre-purchased federal price for the bivalent booster. In a recent investor call, Pfizer indicated that it expected a commercial price per dose for its vaccine to be between $110 and $130. Moderna has suggested a commercial price between $82 and $100 per dose.
It is convenient for companies like Pfizer and Moderna that more and more routines of regular booster shots are also being pushed on the fearful American people while their prices continue to skyrocket.
This is what happens when government takes over a free market. The result is never good, as companies like Pfizer and Moderna become more concerned with profits than the well-being of the American people. Harrelson’s comments may have upset some liberals and the establishment media, but they raise important questions about the role of Big Pharma and big government in our lives.
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Sources: TheGatewayPundit, WesternJournal
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