Drug companies don't worry about ethics

Your cartoon depicting the big drug companies as blood suckers is right on the mark.

I was a practicing pharmacist for over 45 years. I saw their price fixing, bribing ways.

Yes, they did research and some of it breakthroughs. But much of it was only to put another product out with no therapeutic advantage over a previous one.

The drug lobby has convinced Congress not to allow Veterans Affairs to purchase drugs at the bargain prices the states can. You don't need much of an imagination to figure out how they convinced our various representatives.

The advertising of prescription drugs that they admit can injure and kill you and can be obtained only by prescription, may be legal but it certainly isn't ethical.

They spend literally billions annually trying you get the patient to pressure his/her physician. I'm sure it pays off.

Ethics is something the drug companies have never thought of as being worthwhile.

George Blinick

Prospect Heights