There is nothing benign about Big Pharma. Yes, the United States government and medical industry is guilty of major complicity, but money talks.

Pharmaceuticals often have a larger budget for advertizing than for research. Overpricing drugs and price fixing is rampant. Pfizer and other pharmas protect their price gouging by paying hundreds of millions to other companies not to market cheaper generic drugs. Despite being labeled corporate criminals, Big Pharma seems to treat settlement payments as a part of doing business.

www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=315
http://www.natlawreview.com/article/...oj-settlements
http://64.207.159.91/media.php?NewsID=120

PS -- hi_iq, report me if you think this political.