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Big Pharma: A Real War against Drugs

Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
Back in 1976 Henry Gadsden, chief executive of Merck, just before retirement lamented to Fortune magazine the tragedy that his company’s market was limited only to those who were afflicted with illness when his dream had long been to sell to healthy people, therefore having a market that potentially included every person in the world. Well one can imagine the internal chuckle Mr. Gadsden would have enjoyed scanning the New York Times front page on September 2nd, 2009 (a day before the Pfizer settlement was announced) where it was gloriously revealed, this in a headline of course, “Taking Big Risk for Big Payoff, Industry Seeks Cancer Drugs.” The article bluntly explains that, after years of the industry ignoring the fatal disease, recent scientific breakthroughs and the opportunity to charge people dying from cancer outrageous amounts of money is finally too tempting to resist.


These are the respectable drug dealers .....

http://blog.puppetgov.com/2009/09/14/big-pharma-a-real-war-against-drugs/

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  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
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    War on Drugs has started a way back, and thats how still it is going. And thats why Drugs prescription holds its importance.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    :confused: :eek2:
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