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Originally Posted by Bill O'Rights
Doctors and hospitals are in business to save lives. Pharmaceutical companies are not. They are in business to make money. Why do you think so much money has gone into medication that gives old men stiffies, while Aids and cancer medication plods along? There is more money in treating the symptoms than there is in finding the cure. Ethical? Probably not. But it's all about the benjamins.
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So doctors don't get paid nice salaries? Everyone is in
business to make money. That's the name of the game. Abbott has sold it's soul for money, though, and nowhere does it say that companies have to follow the dollar instead of their moral compass.
The 'it's all about the benjamins' mentality is fundamentally flawed ethically. Business ethics dictate that a company has an obligation to make moral decisions.