You Can’t Boycott Medication

I really wish that Ralph Nader was back. I was a child when he was doing his work, but what I remember is the word boycott. When companies were being unfair in their business practices or when products were no good for you, we were told, don’t spend your money there. Don’t buy that product. Eventually the person pedaling the bad product would learn the lesson and change things.

Could the People Say No to Bad Products?

We need that kind of consumerism in the United States. It seems that just about anything can be sold here in the U.S. We buy eyedrops that cannot be purchased in the European Union (EU) because the measurement mechanism is wasteful and drips all over your clothing instead of being absorbed in your eyes. The EU doesn’t allow that mechanism to be sold in their countries.

One Area Where We Can’t Say No

When we are sick, we don’t really have a choice about whether or not to take medication. If we don’t take the medication, we can suffer greatly, have terrible consequences that can even include death. We cannot boycott medication.

The other thing that we cannot do is control the pricing of the medication that we need to keep us alive. The news stories that came…