Posted
7:10 PM
by Gene
In more outstanding news of FREE EN-TER-PRISE at work:Eli Lilly and federal prosecutors are discussing a settlement of a civil and criminal investigation into the company’s marketing of the antipsychotic drug Zyprexa that could result in Lilly’s paying more than $1 billion to federal and state governments.Let's see, what could con-SER-va-tives say? Shakedown, extortion, socialism -- but Big Pharma sorta got in this fix when it let MadAve portray its every drug as a cure for cancer and bad sex.
And all that talk about the billions Big Pharma selflessly spends seems more than a little hollow these days.