Sunday, June 05, 2005

Is Happy Hour Over?

Come on, guys. The cocktail of new (expensive) drugs is really not something you wanna be introducing at your next rave after the free-for-alls in the back room.

Here’s a wake-up call: What if the government in its infinite wisdom (and considering how it deals with the homeless, we know how wise our government is), well what if they changed the Pharmacare rules along the lines of: “If you get a disease from undisciplined sexual activity it will be considered a self-inflicted disease and so the meds for it will no longer be covered. Buy your own way out.” You don’t think there’s a horde of barbarians who already are thinking along these lines? Think again. Remember how the west end voted?

If some calamity were to befall our society and medications of all sorts were harder to come by, how fast would those famously generous pharmaceutical companies in cahoots with a heartless government make some decisions that would see the abandonment of care for the self-inflicted, sexually diseased? In a withering heartbeat. If it were a matter of choice between one’s children getting their meds and another gay guy who partied too much, guess who wins?

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