B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for August 28, 2016

And the pill is called Death.

no problem as long as it cures the side-effects, too

The disease is deadly, but the cure’ll kill you.

No problem.Start up a side effects web site and direct people to it.That only needs one line in the ad.Since smart phones and the internet are basic human rights now, that should cover it.

A great many of the widely televised drug commercials are for products that are extraordinarily expensive. Harvoni, for example, is $1125.00 per pill, and $94,500 for the entire treatment here in the U.S. It’s the Hep-C medication, and the cost of a liver transplant is roughly a quarter of a mil. Live in India and need Harvoni? Only $900 for a generic brand of Harvoni for the course of treatment.

While in military service I reported to morning sick call. I was given a miracle drug and sent back to my barracks. The drug? It was an APC. [All Purpose Capsule] I felt better knowing that.

I like the acne medicine that can ruin you liver. I have no idea how, but it is a side effect.

It’s easy to get rid of a disease if you don’t care what happens to the patient.

Now you know why drugs are so expensive!

…and could lead to liver disease and death… Sounds like what I need. NOT.

First is constipation, second is diarrhea, third is somnolence, fourth is can’t sleep….

Everything in the formerly-free economy that the government has touched has turned to mud. That is what economists call “unanticipated side effects.”

Re: the FDA, the obvious cure to the real problem is to abolish its ability to prohibit sale of anything, but to give it a power to exempt a reasonably safe drug from tort litigation. Both lower costs, to bring a drug to market and for the jury lottery-wheel thereafter. Rationality is not exactly the hallmark of the US political system.

Read today’s Beetle Bailey. The cartoonists must have some kind of connection.

Just take two aspirin and call me in the morning…

Every time you take vaccine. Take it ora-ly. As you know the other way , is more painfully. Allen Sherman.

Jay Leno once played an entire 60-second spot for some prescription medication in his monolog, just to make the point that it was about 13 seconds of pitch and 47 seconds of side effects. I think the ad overdosed on lawyers.