Among The Worst Corporate Criminals

[Minimalist]

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/03/ten-huge...-continue/

Ten huge drug ripoffs that Big Pharma is campaigning to continue

PhRMA, which spent $18.4 million lobbying lawmakers last year and BIO which spent $8.4 million, are among the top lobby groups on the Hill. Until 2010, PhRMA was headed by former Louisiana Rep. Billy Tauzin who resigned from Congress where he chaired the committee which oversees the drug industry only to immediately reappear as the leader of PhRMA where he drew a $2 million salary. Who can say revolving door?

Tauzin had played a key role in shepherding the Medicare Prescription Drug Bill through Congress which prohibited government negotiation of lower drug prices and Canadian imports. “It’s a sad commentary on politics in Washington that a member of Congress who pushed through a major piece of legislation benefiting the drug industry, gets the job leading that industry,” Public Citizen’s President Joan Claybrook said at the time.

This is what is wrong with democracy...and has been for a long time.

[brewer]

I support the pharmaceutical industry but have to draw the line at financial rape.

[Minimalist]

It's a line they never seem to stray too far from, though.

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots...rescribing

Drug-Company Payments Mirror Doctors' Brand-Name Prescribing

Doctors have long disputed the accusation that the payments they receive from pharmaceutical companies have any relationship to how they prescribe drugs.
There's been little evidence to settle the matter, until now.
A ProPublica analysis has found that doctors who receive payments from the medical industry do indeed prescribe drugs differently on average than their colleagues who don't. And the more money they receive, the more brand-name medications they tend to prescribe.

[vorlon13]

Big pharma diddling with our congressional representatives like a catholic priest groping a disabled kid in a wheel chair ?!?!?!?!?!

Oh, my fucking GOD !!!!