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August 15, 2012 by: Willow Tohi
(NaturalNews) Prozac. Cialis. Cymbalta. If you have a television or read magazines, you've heard of their drugs. Eli Lilly, out of Indiana, makes billions of dollars every year off the sale of their patented chemicals, which are used to suppress the symptoms of disease in the human body. Founded by a chemist in the late 19th century; today the pharmaceutical giant has offices in 18 countries, and its products are sold in 125 countries, with revenues exceeding $20 billion annually.
Most of their arsenal is available in other countries for much less money than it is here in the United States, as is the case with most prescription medication. The reason, the pharmaceutical industry claims, is that the health care systems of other countries demands affordable medication, and they need somebody somewhere to foot the research bill, so they can get the next patents lined up before others expire, allowing generic versions of their drugs to become available on the market. That leaves us Americans, with our broken healthcare system, footing the bill of their continued financial success.
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I wrote an actual college
I wrote an actual college paper on this exact topic - how the pharmaceutical company is bribing doctors and nurses so that they will push their pills. Big pharma offers money, lavish dinners, cars, nice vacations disguised as continued education pursuits where the docs only are required to attend a few hours of the educational seminar for just one day in order for that to count and then the rest of the time they are living it up all expenses paid. They are even given pens, posters and Rx pads that all advertise a certain pharma company. The docs push the drugs of the companies perking them, even when it is NOT in the best interesting of the patient. Extremely corrupt, and reletively speaking, well known, but of course, nothing is done to stop this disgusting bribery.