Medical Monopoly Musings #40 - Evil Lilly
“One of the most evil pharma corporations in the world, Eli Lilly & Company. You may have heard of them. They’re evil. And I can say that because I was part of the evil.”
- Dr. John Rengen Virapen who worked 35 years for Eli Lilly in many positions including as an executive.
Should we believe a man who perpetrated such evil and later grew a conscious? Well, we don’t have to rely just on his words…
Lilly has come under fire for their blockbuster drug, Prozac (fluoxetine). Ironically, or devilishly, depending on how you look at it, a drug made for depression leads to increases in suicide. (Not to mention homicide as covered previously in #10.)
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Medical Monopoly Musings #41 - Meet the Man Responsible for Trillion Dollar Transfer from Public Coffers to Big Pharma (and Tens of Millions into His Own Pockets)
This makes me despise politicians more…and at the same time feel bad for the ones that are honest as this is what they have to deal with.
Billy Tauzin was a longtime Democrat in Congress representing Louisiana starting in 1980, nicknamed the “Cagey Cajun” for his methods. But he switched to Republican in 1994 as that party took power in the House. (Clearly, a man of principle!) His salary as congressman was $162,000.
He helped to craft and pass the Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003. One of the provisions of this bill was that the government was not able to negotiate drug prices with pharmaceutical companies, nor import cheaper drugs from overseas. Taxpayers paid the full rate despite being the biggest customer by far.
“The pharmaceutical lobbyists wrote the bill,” said Republican Representative Walter Jones. More importantly, see how it was passed!
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Show notes and references at https://healthsovereign.com/35
