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want to save lives and will do anything to stop a whistleblower from telling the
truth, even if it’s a doctor or scientist.
One memo from a drug company stated: “we may need to seek them out and destroy
them where they live….”
Too Big to Nail
Drug companies these days are almost completely safe from any prosecution for
their crimes or wrongdoings. A CNN report from April 2, 2010 reveals the truth
about how shielded these huge drug companies really are.
For example, the world’s largest pharmaceutical company Pfizer engaged in illegal
promotion of their drug Bextra for off-label use, even though they knew it was
associated with an increased risk of stroke and heart attacks. In 2005 it was pulled
from the market but not before many people were damaged by its use.
Federal prosecutors quickly realized that convicting Pfizer would be a corporate
death sentence since any company convicted of major health care fraud is excluded
from Medicare and Medicaid. So they cut Pfizer a deal. Just as the big banks on
Wall Street were deemed “too big to fail,” Pfizer was deemed “too big to nail.”
Prosecutors claimed the financial losses to shareholders and job losses by Pfizer
would be too great from being excluded from the Medicare/Medicaid programs.
Prosecutors then went ahead and charged a Pfizer subsidiary Pharmacia & Upjohn
Co. instead (this company was incorporated the very same day its lawyers filed a
guilty plea, kind of like a sacrificial lamb created specifically for this purpose).
In the end, all Pfizer lost was about three month’s profit, but all contracts, including
those with Medicaid and Medicare, were spared.
There are hundreds of examples like these, and the moral of the story is;
governments or giant corporations don’t give a hoot about you or your health.
So What?
Where does all this leave you, the patient or caregiver? Well, hopefully, it leaves you
somewhat skeptical about claims by the pharmaceutical “industry” that all
therapies not sold by Bristol-Myers-Squibb or Merck or Abbott Labs or whoever are
“unproven” and therefore pure “quackery.”
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