I am diminished after having read this post.
Could we give them a paddling?
Like what we did with the companies in Germany after the second world war.
I for one wouldn’t mind seeing Pfizer broken up. Do the crime, do the time.
Pfizer fined $2.3 billion | The Spokesman-Review The Pfizer payment was 2.3 billion ,which they sent the next day. They made more than that ,so it was a good business decision.
If the had an investigation ,the honchos would be like the Moodies and other rating companies one this week. None of the bosses had any information that it was going on . Anybody who was a whistle blower was completely unknown to them and they would have never allowed it to go on if they knew. Pfizer had to play the whistle blowers over 100 million. Corporations are soulless beasts who must do anything they can to make money. They can not afford to worry about a few deaths and side effects. Fines are just the cost of doing business in America.
Oh, you better believe that’s a paddlin’.
Right, because people with money automatically don’t have authentic relationships with friends and family, as do all people who don’t have a lot of money.
Was 'luci’s posta bove really necessary?
I guess we’ll never know, until rich people start posting here.
I’ve always opposed antitrust actions based solely on size and market share. But now, in this age of bailouts of companies because they are “too big to fail”, I’m coming around to the position that a company “too big to fail” is too big to exist and should be broken up.
Bless me Teddy Roosevelt, for I have sinned…
I suppose you meant that as a dig on me. I’ve never claimed to be rich and don’t care whether anyone else classifies me as such. Also, 'luci’s post didn’t say anything about “rich” people, just people that “got money.”
It was approved for very narrow use. Pfizer immediately pushed it to doctors and hospitals as a general use drug. They paid them to use it or prescribe it. Bribery is how they do business.
Doctors do not know all the facts about every drug that comes their way. They rely on the drug companies, apparently too much. There are thousands of drugs and more coming all the time. There is no way a doctor can keep up.