How is Pfizer still operating as a Drug Company??!!??

[Blue Meanie]

Pfizer has been fined for the 4th time...this time it's $2.4 Billion for promoting one of their medications/drugs for a use other than what it was intended for. They were found guilty of bribing doctors with trips/money etc.

How is it possible that these guys are still in business??!!?? A doctor does the same thing that they do...their license is suspended. It's just absolutely ridiculous that they are still a company. The Fed wants to stop all of the crap then do something about it. Go in an dismember this company. I don't care how many of the politicians are on the take...something has to be done. Sorry for the venting....but it just really ticks me off when I see crap like this.

Please do not take this as a Left Vs. Right thread...it's not political, it's just plain old common sense that something has to get done. Corporations like Pfizer need to get more then just a slap on the wrist.

[Mikey]

Just last year Merck was caught dumping toxic waste in the Delaware River.

They're still in business

If you got the bucks, you can do anything and get away with it.

[livnxxxl]

How is it possible that these guys are still in business??!!??.

Sadly, The answer is BIG $$$$$. You know the saying money talks and ......


The way I have it figured it that the drug companies such as the one that you mentioned here "create" a "new wonder drug" that promises this and that and the other thing. Then in the real world once the drug has been used/tested on many of people later....the real effects begin to be known.

By this time of course the drug company has their $$$$ billions in profit from the sale. Therefore, The company is able to fend off the many law suits by dragging them out in court for years and years with nothing but complete denial of course that they have done no wrong.

In the mean time while this process is happening....the company continues drawing lucrative interest money from the original and continueing sales of the drug in question.

As a very last result the drug companies IF and WHEN ever found guilty pays the "chump change" law suits with their interest money. Most times they settle out of court and give the people a fraction of what their potential may have been. After years and years of fighting and deliberating.......By this time most normal people have given up fighting the big company and give in and settle for a little change. After all...big $$$ will and generally does prevail in the end.

In the mean time while the high $$$ attorneys that the company has on constant retainer continue to drag the law suits out.....and on and on and on.

All while the company is still FREE to create their next new "miracle drug" to repeat the same process all over again. Bada Bing! There you have it and there you are.