The Pharmaceutical Industry – Private Greed Vs Public Good

February 19, 2010

In 2008 prescription medications accounted for $291 billion in sales in the United States. In 2000, the drug industry employed more than 625 lobbyists (1) (there are only 535 members of Congress). Big business. Big money. Big power. Power versus principles – this is an eternal dialectic. If power rules, we might as well shred the Belmont Report right now. (Cactus News Online)