Josh Bloom in Medical Progress Today, "Generic Roulette"
I'm sure that consumers, medical policymakers and insurance companies are just oozing with joy. After all, we are rapidly heading for pharmaceutical paradise--a pharmacy packed with really cheap generics and not much else.
This will not only save tons of money, but also stick it to those bad boy pharmaceutical companies that invented the drug in the first place, and then sucked us dry by fighting off the noble generic companies for an extra two minutes of patent protection so they could suck us even drier.
Doesn't get any better than this. At least until you swallow the pill.
In today's "big surprise of the day," Ranbaxy Laboratories, India's largest generic manufacturer got a little $500 million slap on the wrist from the U.S. Justice department...[Read more].