Article on the Vaccine Issue

[Getting Traded]

Good that you checked it. I didn't but did you read that entire report on the Science Blog? I skimmed it quickly looking for conclusions. So apparently she didn't have autism but a genetic problem that caused her neurological condition. I just posted this and you looked for a rebuttal. Good work. But it's not so good to rely on the work of others to express a categorical opinion and call people ignorant. I have never done that. There should be no competition for truth, or one opinion over another. That makes truth which should be the primary goal, secondary. If you're just interested in winning the debate, that's your prerogative, not mine, which is why I posted it FYI.

 

[Harambe]

The only difference is that vaccines have mildly negative side effects, almost always.

I didn't think it needed to be said. Benefits outweigh the risk is still true. .. Independant of how wildly skewed that scale is.

Hell, Tylenol can cause liver failure and it's sold to minors over the counter any day of the week.

 

[One Brow]

Good that you checked it. I didn't but did you read that entire report on the Science Blog? I skimmed it quickly looking for conclusions. So apparently she didn't have autism but a genetic problem that caused her neurological condition. I just posted this and you looked for a rebuttal. Good work.

It was work you could have, and should have done. Instead, you credulously swallowed some story from an untrustworthy source.

If you're just interested in winning the debate, that's your prerogative, not mine, which is why I posted it FYI.

I don't need to win this debate; science won this debate for me years ago.

The next time you start posting about doctors, pharmaceuticals, etc., I strongly suggest you consider one other thing: health insurance companies are even bigger than pharmaceuticals, lobby more heavily, and would save hundreds of millions, if not billions, by directing physicians to use these so-called alternative treatments and to not vaccinate, if they were medically viable options. The next time you start getting wound up in notion of the pharmaceuticals controlling the FDA or other such things, figure out why Anthem/Aetna/United/etc. is going along with it. If you can't perhaps that's because the heath insurance companies recognize that one the more expensive course of action is medically valid, and the other is not.

 

[Getting Traded]

It was work you could have, and should have done. Instead, you credulously swallowed some story from an untrustworthy source.



I don't need to win this debate; science won this debate for me years ago.

The next time you start posting about doctors, pharmaceuticals, etc., I strongly suggest you consider one other thing: health insurance companies are even bigger than pharmaceuticals, lobby more heavily, and would save hundreds of millions, if not billions, by directing physicians to use these so-called alternative treatments and to not vaccinate, if they were medically viable options. The next time you start getting wound up in notion of the pharmaceuticals controlling the FDA or other such things, figure out why Anthem/Aetna/United/etc. is going along with it. If you can't perhaps that's because the heath insurance companies recognize that one the more expensive course of action is medically valid, and the other is not.

Wrong, pharmaceuticals are bigger, for one. Insurance is ruled by them.

 

[Gameface]

Wrong, pharmaceuticals are bigger, for one. Insurance is ruled by them.

lol

 

[One Brow]

Wrong, pharmaceuticals are bigger, for one. Insurance is ruled by them.

See, this is a great example of what I mean about work you could have and should have done.

The total revenue from pharmaceuticals in 2016 was about 446 billion.

The total revenue from life/health insurance in 2016 was about 852 billion.

So, again, the next time you see something on mercola hawking supplements, ask yourself why the insurance companies don't get this stuff forced on patients to save costs.

 

[Getting Traded]

See, this is a great example of what I mean about work you could have and should have done.

The total revenue from pharmaceuticals in 2016 was about 446 billion.

The total revenue from life/health insurance in 2016 was about 852 billion.

So, again, the next time you see something on mercola hawking supplements, ask yourself why the insurance companies don't get this stuff forced on patients to save costs.

Check this out again. The total for pharmaceuticals was for one year, but for insurance, eight years. Am I wrong? Look for yourself.

This statistic shows the total revenue of the life and health insurance industry in the United States from 2009 to 2017. In 2017, the U.S. life and health insurance industry generated a total revenue of 839.8 billion U.S. dollars.

But so what, they're both huge, filthy rich businesses profiting off the misfortune of others, and probably in cahoots with each other. Guess I misread it, it is for 2017 only.

 

[One Brow]

Check this out again. The total for pharmaceuticals was for one year, but for insurance, eight years. Am I wrong? Look for yourself.

Yes, you are. They gave eight different numbers for the eight years on the graph. The number for 2016 was 852.

But so what, they're both huge, filthy rich businesses profiting off the misfortune of others, and probably in cahoots with each other.

Health insurance companies profit by keeping the costs of healthcare, including prescription drugs, down. The life/health insurance agencies are huge, filthy rich businesses profiting off the good health of others. That means they want to lower the rate of prescriptions for expensive medicines like chemotherapy.

Guess I misread it, it is for 2017 only.

It's nice to be able to agree on how to read a graph. A promising start.