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> The company, based in the Netherlands but managed from Canonsburg, Pa., outside Pittsburgh, has grown from a sleepy generic maker to a global player with $9.4
by rdtsc 10y ago
> The company, based in the Netherlands but managed from Canonsburg, Pa., outside Pittsburgh, has grown from a sleepy generic maker to a global player with $9.4 billion in revenue last year. Pay has grown, too. Ms. Bresch, the CEO, earned $18.9 million last year, up from $9 million in 2013. [...] Ms. Bresch was found to have wrongly claimed to have an M.B.A. degree from West Virginia University.
A company based in Netherlands, managed from Pittsburgh, by a person who lied about their credentials, is now modulating the rate of asthma deaths from anaphylaxis of American children. Yap. As Hunter S. Thomson said, "in a democracy you have to be a player". She is a good player...
Yet anyone dare mention nationalized medicine or price controls and that is met with pejoratives like socialism, anti-Americanism, and anti free market. "But you can't do that! You'll upset the free market Gods".
Somehow we manage to keep spending trillions on things like F-35, we manage to build tanks nobody needs (http://www.military.com/daily-news/2015/01/28/pentagon-tells-congress-to-stop-buying-equipment-it-doesnt-need.html http://www.military.com/daily-news/2015/01/28/pentagon-tells...), send billions in foreign military aid to countries in the ME (Israel $3B+ and Egypt $1B). Yet anyone dare suggesting price controls for EpiPens -- and oh no, socialism will kill us all.
- grandalf 10y ago> anyone dare mention nationalized medicine or price controls Uh, the US medical system is full of price controls on pretty much everything that is a "service" and not a product. > Somehow we manage to keep spending trillions on things like F-35 Yes, these are a horrible and unconscionable waste of resources and blight upon the world. But the American left is just as much in favor of military excess as the American right.