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Think Big Pharma Won’t Profiteer in the Race to Treat Coronavirus? Think Again.

“In a 2019 Gallup poll, Big Pharma ranked as the most disliked industry in America. Rosie Collington, a graduate student at the University of Copenhagen and a researcher at the Academic-Industry Research Network, knows why: She has studied how major insulin manufacturing…

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With working Americans’ survival at stake, the US is bailing out the richest

“Amid a humanitarian crisis compounded by mass layoffs and collapsing economic activity, the last course our legislators should be following is the one they appear to be on right now: bailing out shareholders and executives who, while enriching themselves, spent…

Prescription drug costs in Americans are sky-high. And yes, Big Pharma greed is to blame

“As debates around drug prices heat up on the presidential campaign trail, the House of Representatives voted in December to pass Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s drug bill, which contains key provisions allowing the government to negotiate lower prices on at least 50 drugs each year.”……

After Over Three Decades, Rebel Economist Breaks Through to Washington. Here’s How He Did It.

By Lynn Parramore “The idea that businesses are run to maximize profits for shareholders is just plain wrong, says William Lazonick Ever heard that a corporation’s sole duty is to maximize value for shareholders? In the go-go ‘80s, business schools,…