Sam Seder
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America's Sociopathic Pharmaceutical Industry Strikes Again
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January 10, 2018
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6:28Now PlayingIn this Majority Report clip, we talk about how Donald Trump's HHS nominee, Alex Azar, participated in extremely disgusting consumer practices while he was a top executive at Eli Lilly.
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---When Donald Trump’s nominee for HHS secretary was a top executive at Eli Lilly, the patent on its blockbuster Cialis was soon to expire.
So Lilly tested it on kids.
The drugmaker believed the erectile dysfunction drug might help a rare and deadly muscle-wasting disease that afflicts boys. The drug didn’t work — but under a law that promotes pediatric research, Lilly was able to extend the Cialis patent anyway for six months — and that’s worth a lot when a medication brings in over $2 billion a year.
Critics say the brand-name drugmakers are “gaming” the patent system, finding all sorts of ways to protect monopolies and delay competition from generics. And Alex Azar — the former president of Eli Lilly's U.S. operations, now poised to become the top U.S. health official — professes to oppose such tactics.---
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