Investing to Save One's Own Life

     As an investor in Big Pharma, I focus on the companies that invented and/or sell the products that have had the biggest positive impact upon my life.  However, when looking for businesses to promote, it is not only the current conditions that I deal with that I should consider.  It is important to anticipate possible, future illnesses, as well.

My grandmother died from Parkinson's disease.  Due to the somewhat hereditary nature of that fatal condition, I should be concerned about trying to work for a cure before I risk getting it in old age.  Fortunately, two of the companies that I hold stock in have joined forces with five other big names to advance towards developing better treatments and eventually a cure.  Those pharmaceutical corporations are AbbVie Inc. (ABBV) and Eli Lilly & Co. (LLY).

If I can champion these Big Pharma businesses, perhaps a medicine will exist so that it is there for when I have use for it and can buy it.  And, as a reward for my business alliances, I may find that I have made a small fortune for myself through my investments, too.

Paul Wharton
Objectivist Capitalist Medicine Promoter