Replies should @RFK, I would but my account is suspended rn

Wow, I'm paying way to much for healthcare.

Pfizer is having some financial troubles. Here's an article from August:

Pfizer lays off 210 employees in North Carolina The job cuts were spurred by a gene therapy trial failure and lower demand for some of its sterile injectable drugs.

While Pfizer’s Sanford site will remain open, 150 employees will be let go due to a high-profile Phase 3 trial failure in June for Pfizer’s experimental gene therapy to treat Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a company spokesperson emailed Manufacturing Dive.

https://www.manufacturingdive.com/news/pfizer-layoffs-210-employees-in-sanford-rocky-mount-north-carolina-drug-sites/723081/

Link to post https://x.com/HustleBitch_/status/1857228183583543464

Bring them down, ALL of them down!!!

83% of the FDAs user fee income in 2024 came from the fucking tobacco industry!

In a filing sent to an appeals court on Wednesday, an attorney for the Department of Justice (DOJ) suggested that premium cigar companies have paid more than $100 million to the FDA in user fees.

The user fee system is somewhat complicated, mainly because it is set by Congress and not by FDA itself. The total amount of user fees is set each year—for FY2024, it is $712 million—which is divided up between various tobacco segments. The exact amounts are based on the percentage of each product class—cigarettes, cigars, etc.—paid in excise taxes during the previous year and then divided amongst the various companies making said products. The exact amount a company owes is based on how many products that company imported in the previous year. The user fees themselves are paid quarterly.

Cigarettes—still the dominant tobacco product category—account for more than 83 percent of user fees in FY2024, around $148.7 million per quarter. The cigar category—which includes both premium and mass market cigars—is projected to pay $25.5 million per quarter.

https://halfwheel.com/court-filings-indicate-premium-cigar-companies-have-paid-more-than-100-million-in-user-fees/442966/

The Prescription Drug User Fee Act was passed in 1992 and allows the FDA to collect fees from drug companies seeking approval of products.

The fees provide funding that helps the agency speed the review and approval process, the FDA said.

"Speed" the review and approval, eh?

Spokespersons for Pfizer and the FDA confirmed the payment was for the fee required under the law.

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/apr/05/tweets/pfizer-did-not-bribe-fda-approval-its-covid-19-vac/

Legal bribes are still bribes, and I had NO idea that the FDA was basically suckling off the tobacco industry teat. 83% of their user fees, FFS

Commenting to remain in my history.

Why does any government entity receive any payments or money's that dont go through tje U.s. treasury first? Talk about a recipe for money laundering.

If you're going to provide an image, at least provide a link to view the source. We're supposed to be researchers here. A huge part of being informed and not falling for hype is GOING TO the source to examine it directly.