New Report by Rep. Katie Porter Exposes Big Pharma's Launch Price Abuse

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7. It's not a marketing gimmick

It's an apt description of an industry that makes huge profits that go to a few BIG companies. In the most profitable areas of an economy a few big companies usually dominate the market (for example, oil which is often called big oil) and that divide up the marketplace, have huge lobbying efforts and rake in high profits.

The supplement industry is mostly bullshit but that doesn't change the point of this thread which is the true fact that taxpayers through universities are funding much of the cost of this research while big pharma gets the lion's share of the rewards. I worked at a university where one of the biggest drug companies did research. With upper level students doing much of the work for little above minimum wage and companies providing grants that didn't cover anywhere near the cost, it was a sweetheart deal for that company.