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Big Pharma Cuts The National Debt (Competing with the notorious Brothers Koch) Big Pharma's determined to help us reduce The national debt as only they can: They'll produce and distribute more drugs illegally, Then pay massive fines. What a laudable plan. They obviously consider these tactics preferable To laundering money through anonymous gifts To lobbyists like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Who survive on commissions from wealthy spendthrifts. This view isn't necessarily shared By those for whom the wrong drugs were prescribed. Those who're still with us won't be pleased to learn How doctors their doctors learned from often were bribed. Big Pharma has found so many ways to be fined. "Bad" Tagamet, Avandia and Paxil pills Cost GlaxoSmithKline, the British drug giant, A debt-reducing many hundreds of mils. One point three billion in Fed fines for Pfizer Puts them right up there with the Brothers Koch In what they are spending on our nation's behalf: Pfizer, Fed funding; the Kochs, a bad joke.
Bob Carlson 10/27/10 To 'Lawsuits Say Pharma Illegally Paid Doctors to Push Their Drugs' To 'Glaxo to Pay $750 Million for Sale of Bad Products' To 'Pfizer to pay $1.3 billion criminal fine for misbranding its drugs' To 'Secretive Koch Donors' To 'Chamber of Commerce' To 'Avaricious Drugmakers' To 'Devious Doctors' |