Wow. Last Week Tonight’s second season debuted with John Oliver taking on one of the most powerful industries on Earth: Big Pharma.
This segment exposes the dark side of pharmaceutical marketing and points a light on companies whose goals are clearly to make money, not help people recover from illness.
“Drug companies are a bit like high school boyfriends,” Oliver says. “They’re much more concerned with getting inside you than being effective once they’re in there.”
Additionally, Oliver talks about how drug companies are twisting the arms of doctors to work for them by giving them flattering titles and shows how doctors are paid to pitch certain drugs by big pharma.
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Here's a link to a very good
Here's a link to a very good Youtube that traces the origins of Big Pharma to a Rockefeller meeting in 1913 and his plans to control the medical industry. As you can guess, the goal was to keep the people in a state of profitable health dependency, rather than heal them.
The Rockefeller Drug Empire - Eustace Mullins
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6WvjS_6xvk