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Ron Johnson: “From the pharmaceutical industry standpoint, they had a drug…”

Featuring: Ron Johnson, Republican | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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And again, that's shifting gears into really the failure of our healthcare system of establishment medicine, of pharmaceutically driven medicine. They call it Rockefeller medicine. This is where I've been so supportive. Why do they call it Rockefeller medicine? From the pharmaceutical industry standpoint, they had a drug to lower cholesterol, statins. So guess what? They chose cholesterol. The winner. The winner because we've got a drug to manage that now. There are all kinds of emerging serious side effects of statins. One that I read about was sudden hearing loss. (1:04:40–1:04:49)

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Asserts that the pharmaceutical industry prioritized cholesterol as a cause of heart disease due to having a drug for it.

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