An open letter to the U.S. House of Representatives
Pfizer Monopoly make syphilis an epidemic
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I wonder if you're too busy obstructing to realize that there is an epidemic of syphilis.
Yes, syphilis. Syphilis is at epidemic portions. It is killing babies born to women that are infected. You fail to see a Health crisis and then you fail to react to it.
The Republican party, which claims to be the great champion of babies, is ignoring a Public Health crisis.
The Pfizer drug company has a monopoly on the drugs to cure syphilis. The cure is well known and easy to administer. But Pfizer, using the power of monopoly, has failed to meet the demand for the drug, escalating the problem. Apparently there's not a big profit in syphilis medicine so they ignore it.
Republicans and Democrats have failed Americans by allowing Pfizer to become a monopoly. You accept drug company monopolies that drive up the cost of medicine that Americans need.
You may condemn the victims of syphilis as wanton but it will reach every corner of the country if you don't address it. You can't pretend that everybody will be chase. You can't pretend that churches are the answer. You can't pretend that passing a law will stop a sexual infection.
This is the role of federal government. To deal with problems outside the scope of states, outside the scope of church!
When you allow an epidemic to continue for a lack of medicine, when you allow a easily cure disease to spread without addressing it, You are failing in your role to represent the American public.
Please address this Health crisis. There will be more to come.