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> Frankly the US pays for the cost of the research while the rest of the world just pays for the cost of production. Oh come the fuck on, this has been the tal
by ToucanLoucan 3y ago
> Frankly the US pays for the cost of the research while the rest of the world just pays for the cost of production.
Oh come the fuck on, this has been the talking point since the early 2000's. Surely nobody still believes this horse shit. Phizer by itself raked in 50 billion last year alone.
- lostlogin 3y agoIt comes up here in NZ every few years, as there is frustration that we aren’t paying as much as the drug companies would like. The US leaned on us hard to scrap our single payer system. This sympathy for these massive companies in this thread depressing. Big Agg and Big Tech don’t get this free pass.
- ToucanLoucan 3y agoIt was depressing in 2008, now it's just pathetic. It's no wonder they feel so emboldened to continue fucking people raw for their medications, they have hordes of defenders in government and otherwise ready to offer page upon page of apologia for their rampant profiteering.
- pstrateman 3y agoPfizer's world wide net income was $2.12bn USD in 2023. I guarantee you 100% of that came from the united states.
- aaomidi 3y agoOkay? Then if the US starts changing its policy they won’t make stupid deals with the rest of the world then.
- votepaunchy 3y agoPfizer net income for 2023 by quarter. After taking in 10s of billions in vaccine profits this certainly looks like some fun accounting. 2023-12-31 $-3,369 2023-09-30 $-2,382 2023-06-30 $2,327 2023-03-31 $5,543 https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/PFE/pfizer/net-income https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/PFE/pfizer/net-inc...