2.09.2011

Documentary reveals the unhealthy profits of the pharmaceutical industry


The Bureau of Investigative Journalism published the 24 minute documentary on YouTube, The following is their introduction to the video and a direct link the Bureau's website that has the video embedded. 

"The United States healthcare industry is the world’s biggest – with $300 billion a year spent on prescription drugs alone, and rising. But recent months have seen health scandal after health scandal, with some of the world’s biggest pharmaceutical companies fined billions of dollars.

These cases are beginning to reveal vast corruption in the drug industry, with revelations of fraud, of cover-ups of fatal side effects and huge kickbacks paid to doctors. Our investigation reveals the story of how healthcare became unhealthy profit."






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