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Too bad he didn't need Viagra, or Prozac, or some other expensive script
because the drug reps stuff the doctors freebies closets full of those.
Like all drugs .... once they get ya hooked on the good stuff .....
When I still worked in medical the hot item amoung the docs was a necktie that
was a very handsome navy blue tie. If you looked carefully it had Viagra logo
woven repeatedly in the design. Even the guys that never wrote a legit script for it
wanted or were wearing one - a great inside joke that likely cost a lot more to make
than the $2 work of generic antibiotic that guy needed.
(and yes - good on you Mike .... ya big soft liberal)
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lafinfil wrote:
Too bad he didn't need Viagra, or Prozac, or some other expensive script
because the drug reps stuff the doctors freebies closets full of those.
Like all drugs .... once they get ya hooked on the good stuff .....
When I still worked in medical the hot item amoung the docs was a necktie that
was a very handsome navy blue tie. If you looked carefully it had Viagra logo
woven repeatedly in the design. Even the guys that never wrote a legit script for it
wanted or were wearing one - a great inside joke that likely cost a lot more to make
than the $2 work of generic antibiotic that guy needed.
My college classmate penned
this book about life as a sales rep for Big Pharma, which was both funny and depressing. I wonder if there is a drug for that...
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So, Mike Johnson ponies up out of his surplus to help someone who lacks. He didn't ask the guy how he handled money, or how much he drank, or if he smoked. He helped because the guy needed it.
If that's so laudable, why is public health care so contentious? Is it not the exact same thing?
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That's a sad story of a real man's experience, economic hardship. Many other factors in his life are not known. At any other time, it would be recognized as such, a story about a man. In our current climate, it becomes a symbol of some larger thing, emblematic of a national injustice. I'm okay with not attempting to link it to a larger pattern, to score points in a political debate. But it could be read any number of ways, depending on your inclination. I think you did the right thing, a simple, direct, generous act, common sense, something I hope many of us would do in a similar situation.
Person to person voluntary generosity and community involvement certainly has its merits. It's less costly and more humane than the construction of an expensive, multi-layered self-interested bureaucracy entrusted with asset redistribution, managing or mismanaging an effort to provide $15 worth of pills to a guy standing next to you at a pharmacy. Either way, to just give direct aid to a neighbor in need is the decent thing to do.
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Acer wrote:
So, Mike Johnson ponies up out of his surplus to help someone who lacks. He didn't ask the guy how he handled money, or how much he drank, or if he smoked. He helped because the guy needed it.
And that's very admirable. But it was
his choice. Uncle Sam didn't pull Mike's wallet out of his pocket and force him to.
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:hail: ... MJ. I think most of decent folks would do what MJ did.
