In truth, corporations are only in business to turn a profit and provide a good/service.
So, as a whole - the corporate 'entity' isn't there to help you. It's there to sell you its product and make a profit for the investors/owners.
However, not all of the people who work there are heartless bastards. I don't think all their chemists that they employ are sitting around, making up new things to get us hooked on while the lobbyists convince the AMA, with the help of the Boy Sprouts and the Goldfish fanciers...
Okay, sorry.. got silly for a moment. But seriously, I do think a lot of them *are* there to help people: pain management is a big deal for some people - until a cure exists for whatever condition they have, sometimes the best you can do is to help people to the point where they can function... or at least aren't in agony 24/7.
Now, that said, I have my own views on exactly how much it truly costs to make some of the meds, versus attempts to block out generic versions of the drug that can be made much less expensively elsewhere...
Point is, I don't think they're inherently evil: certainly individuals at the company may be scumbags... but human history has shown that to be the case time and time again, regardless of the group those individuals happen to be part of.
The biggest problem, I think, is education and well... laziness. Even outside of the pharm industry, you got people buying things that they don't even remotely understand, and didn't research before they bought it - instead relying on advertising or someone else's say-so.
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So, as a whole - the corporate 'entity' isn't there to help you. It's there to sell you its product and make a profit for the investors/owners.
However, not all of the people who work there are heartless bastards. I don't think all their chemists that they employ are sitting around, making up new things to get us hooked on while the lobbyists convince the AMA, with the help of the Boy Sprouts and the Goldfish fanciers...
Okay, sorry.. got silly for a moment. But seriously, I do think a lot of them *are* there to help people: pain management is a big deal for some people - until a cure exists for whatever condition they have, sometimes the best you can do is to help people to the point where they can function... or at least aren't in agony 24/7.
Now, that said, I have my own views on exactly how much it truly costs to make some of the meds, versus attempts to block out generic versions of the drug that can be made much less expensively elsewhere...
Point is, I don't think they're inherently evil: certainly individuals at the company may be scumbags... but human history has shown that to be the case time and time again, regardless of the group those individuals happen to be part of.
The biggest problem, I think, is education and well... laziness. Even outside of the pharm industry, you got people buying things that they don't even remotely understand, and didn't research before they bought it - instead relying on advertising or someone else's say-so.