We have had too much medicine for too many years. The time to act is now. How one doctor's fight against corporate greed | dG1fNmZReGhITjVLanc
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00:00Well, when it comes out, we'll be happy to promote it.
00:08In 1986, Ronald Reagan made it easier for American pharma companies to make more money.
00:16And in 1992, George Bush allowed them to spend some of that to directly finance the FDA.
00:25By 1999, drug giant Merck had falsified their own research to usher a new arthritis drug onto the market.
00:35Vioxx would kill an estimated 55,000 Americans.
00:40But that was just for starters.
00:44In the last two decades, big pharma has been fined tens of billions of dollars.
00:51But the deception continues.
00:55When they are free to deceive, who can you believe?
00:59Please give a very warm welcome to Dr. Asim Mahatma.
01:07They paid fines that were minuscule in comparison to the profit that they made.
01:12And nobody got fired, and the system just continues to do the same thing.
01:16Nothing has changed to stop them committing these crimes again.
01:20Top executives should be held personally accountable,
01:23so that they would need to think of the risk of imprisonment when they consider performing or accomplishing these crimes.
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