Daily Caller columnist Mary Luke discussed the importance of the station’s new documentary “SICK” and the impact Big Pharma is having on Americans on Friday’s Real American’s Voice.
Luke appeared on “The War Room” to talk about the release of The Daily Caller’s “SICK: Unmasking Big Medicine” and its importance to viewers. Host Natalie Winters asked Luke about the origins of the film. (Related: Daily Caller’s ‘SICK’ reveals how much profit Big Pharma made from coronavirus)
“As you said, after Covid, I think a lot of people woke up to the reality of what big healthcare is doing in America and what it really means for American patients. We really felt that. So we started digging a little deeper and realized that clearly this is much more than COVID, it started long before that.” said Luke. “One of the women in the trailer, and everyone just watched it, was a very sad story. She said her husband had just started his own company and he just couldn’t sleep and went to the doctor. He was given Zoloft within 10 minutes. Shortly thereafter, about three months later, he hanged himself in his garage, and she now wonders how that happened. I spend my life trying to understand it.”
“Some of the doctors in the documentary are just talking about the financial incentives behind this and why doctors are going in this direction,” she continued. “If you look at that money and follow the flow of that money, you see that these drug companies are pouring billions of dollars into doctors and hospitals. Direct payments are also being made to ensure that there is no break-in.”
Luke went on to talk about how the doctor in the film “snowballed” into taking prescription drugs after being given a bottle of Vicodin.
“When we created this, our big hope for this was that patients would definitely leave the hospital with a prescription in hand and go to the doctor’s office without realizing that they actually have an incentive to understand the treatment. I think it’s going to go away.’ Whether that prescription causes the nasty side effects that some of the people in the documentary highlighted,” Luke said.
Winters then asked Luke about the “incentives” behind the choices health care companies have made on Americans over the past few years, asking if it was something “bigger” or just financial. I asked him if it was something.
“Well, I think it’s definitely both. I mean, when you look at this, the profits must be screaming at them. Pfizer was making about $56 billion in profits pre-COVID, but… , and was making $100 billion in profits by 2023,” Luke continued. “Then let’s look at the payments that these big pharmaceutical companies paid just to doctors. In 2022, it was around 2.46 billion, which went directly to hospitals. So if you look at this; I can see there are economic incentives behind it. But as I’ve talked to others before, there are definitely ways for power to corrupt people, and if you want these people to When you give people this much power over their lives, they naturally accept it.”
Pfizer, one of the major medical companies during the COVID-19 pandemic, doubled its revenue from 2020 to 2021 to more than $81 billion. The company has gained a major foothold in the U.S. regulatory process, allowing years since the pandemic through annual vaccinations and sales of the antiviral drug Paxrobid, even though some patients reported negative side effects from both treatments. was also planning to make a profit.
“SICK” shatters the incentives behind and prior to the healthcare industry’s dominance over the pandemic. A new documentary from the Daily Caller explores the cobwebs the industry has created in America through detailed stories of how everyday life in America is being affected.
