This is the Weight and Healthcare newsletter! If you like what you are reading, please consider subscribing and/or sharing! Big Pharma is trying to trick us into lobbying for them and it’s exactly as horrific as you think. Regular readers will know that I take a firm view on bodily autonomy, but I also take a firm view of what constitutes things like ethical, evidence-based medicine and informed consent. Finally, I take a firm view on pharmaceutical companies infiltrating and manipulating the healthcare industry, the insurance industry, and the public, and it’s this last bit that I’d like to talk about today.
OMG, this sentence made me laugh out loud: "and I will say, that the horror of these pharma companies is so great that I am siding with the insurance industry does not make me happy."
I've noticed the uptick in messages conflating fat with health and co-opting anti-weight stigma from Eli Lilly, kind of shocked me. Thank goodness I'm so well informed, thanks to you, Ragen, and others in this space, so I could see through the rhetoric, but worried me for those who are vulnerable to this messaging.
Thank you so much for this! I probably get at least a dozen emails a week telling me to contact my legislators about something, and sometimes it's difficult to tell if it's really in my best interests to do so! I appreciate you for doing the research and hard work in order to make sure we're informed, Ragen ❤️
OMG, this sentence made me laugh out loud: "and I will say, that the horror of these pharma companies is so great that I am siding with the insurance industry does not make me happy."
I've noticed the uptick in messages conflating fat with health and co-opting anti-weight stigma from Eli Lilly, kind of shocked me. Thank goodness I'm so well informed, thanks to you, Ragen, and others in this space, so I could see through the rhetoric, but worried me for those who are vulnerable to this messaging.
Thank you so much for this! I probably get at least a dozen emails a week telling me to contact my legislators about something, and sometimes it's difficult to tell if it's really in my best interests to do so! I appreciate you for doing the research and hard work in order to make sure we're informed, Ragen ❤️
Just when you think it couldn’t get worse…thanks for keeping watch and educating us.
Thank you SO much for all you do.
Yikes! Thank you, Ragen.