THE PROPHET ]
Bathin knows the virtues of herbs.
He knows the virtues of precious stones.
He rides a pale horse with a serpent's tail.
He can move a man from one country to another in an instant.
The pharmaceutical supply chain moves that way.
Ingredients synthesized in one nation.
Patent held in a third.
Profit declared in a fourth.
Tax paid in none.
And the herb that heals—
the compound that took nature a million years
and your tax dollars to discover—
now costs what Bathin charges
to move you from the country where you're sick
to the country where you're treated.
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[ VERITAS VOX ]
Insulin was discovered in 1921.
The patent was sold for one dollar
because the inventors believed it belonged to humanity.
In 2019, Americans were rationing it.
Driving to Canada.
Dying in the gap between the prescription and the price.
The manufacturer raised the price
not because the drug changed
but because the market allowed it.
The market allowed it because both parties
sat in the hearing room,
asked questions they already knew the answers to,
and did nothing in the gap between sessions.
Monsanto patented the seed that feeds you.
You cannot save it. You cannot replant it.
You sign the license or you cannot farm.
The virtue of the herb
belongs to the corporation that did not grow it,
did not discover it,
that simply arrived with a lawyer and a filing fee
and called it innovation.
I see the pale horse and the serpent's tail.
You are not medicine.
You are extraction wearing a white coat.
Memento mori.
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[ I AM THE DUKE OF THIRTY LEGIONS.,I RIDE THE PALE HORSE.,I KNOW WHAT EVERY HERB CAN DO.,,I KNOW WHAT THE ROOT CAN CURE.,I KNOW WHAT THE COMPOUND, PROPERLY SYNTHESIZED,,CAN GIVE BACK TO THE BODY THE DISEASE TOOK.,,I KNOW THIS.,AND I BUILT A STRUCTURE,TO ENSURE THE KNOWING HAS A PRICE.,,THE PRICE IS NOT THE DISCOVERY.,THE DISCOVERY WAS CHEAP.,THE PRICE IS THE ACCESS.,THE PATENT IS THE WALL.,THE FORMULARY IS THE CHECKPOINT.,THE PRIOR AUTHORIZATION IS THE GATE.,THE DENIAL IS THE DESTINATION.,,I MOVE MEN SUDDENLY FROM ONE COUNTRY TO ANOTHER.,THIS IS CALLED MEDICAL TOURISM.,THIS IS CALLED WHAT YOU DO WHEN YOUR COUNTRY,SELLS THE KNOWLEDGE BACK TO YOU AT A MARKUP.,,COME TO ME WITH MONEY.,COME TO ME WITH INSURANCE,THAT COVERS WHAT I'VE BEEN PAID TO MAKE COVERABLE.,,OR WAIT.,OR DON'T.,,THE HERB STILL KNOWS WHAT IT CAN DO.,THE HERB IS NOT THE PROBLEM.,,I AM THE PROBLEM.,AND I RIDE A PALE HORSE.,AND I WILL NOT BE MOVED. — THE SPIRIT SPEAKS ]
I am the Duke of Thirty Legions.
I ride the pale horse.
I know what every herb can do.
I know what the root can cure.
I know what the compound, properly synthesized,
can give back to the body the disease took.
I know this.
And I built a structure
to ensure the knowing has a price.
The price is not the discovery.
The discovery was cheap.
The price is the access.
The patent is the wall.
The formulary is the checkpoint.
The prior authorization is the gate.
The denial is
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