Pharmageddon Xi

www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/jul/08/...isbehaviour-gsk-fine


'Pharma overtakes arms industry to top the league of misbehaviour'

Despite the large fine, $3bn is far less than the profits made from the drugs. Avandia has made $10.4bn in sales, Paxil took $11.6bn, and Wellbutrin sales were $5.9bn during the years covered by the settlement, according to IMS Health, which provides information for the pharmaceutical sector.


The fact that the profits available from bestselling drugs dwarf the fines handed out if anything goes wrong means the kinds of misdemeanours picked up in the settlement are bound to happen, says Wolfe. His conclusion is that, for Big Pharma, "crime pays".


{ if an ordinary citizen profits from crime and is caught and prosecuted, the take every penny from that citizen suspected to have been derived from that crime1


But for the drug companies crime pays }

but they still make 5 billion profits.  they can commit the same crime again and get the same fine and still super profitable. while their thousands of victims are in health hell




take all the money and there would be no reason for them to do it again.


thats the principle behind the same thing for ordinary people.  whey the hell do the corporations get it differrent