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Pretty disgusting! I hate how cynical I've become. It's hard to trust anything these days.
http://money.cnn.com/2013/11/04/news/companies/johnson-and-johnson-settlement/
Furthermore I just read this story
http://www.washingtonpost.com/busin...6628e-55e7-11e3-8304-caf30787c0a9_story.html#
http://money.cnn.com/2013/11/04/news/companies/johnson-and-johnson-settlement/
Johnson & Johnson will pay $2.2 billion to settle charges that the company marketed drugs for unapproved uses and paid "kickbacks" to doctors and nursing homes.
The penalties announced Monday involve fines and forfeiture to the federal government and several states. The settlement involves the schizophrenia drugs Risperdal and Invega, and the heart failure drug Natrecor, the company and Attorney General Eric Holder said.
Furthermore I just read this story
http://www.washingtonpost.com/busin...6628e-55e7-11e3-8304-caf30787c0a9_story.html#
Doctors choose the more expensive drug more than half a million times every year, a choice that costs the Medicare program, the largest single customer, an extra $1 billion or more annually.
Doctors, meanwhile, may benefit when they choose the more expensive drug. Under Medicare repayment rules for drugs given by physicians, they are reimbursed for the average price of the drug plus 6 percent. That means a drug with a higher price may be easier to sell to doctors than a cheaper one. In addition, Genentech offers rebates to doctors who use large volumes of the more expensive drug.