pharmaceutical profits

Advances in medicine provide cures and life sustaining treatment for tens of thousands of Oregonians. But who decides which patients will receive them? Is the life of a private insurance patient worth more than someone the Oregon Health Plan?

OPINION – May 3, 2013 -- Like sharks, the largest pharmaceutical companies smell blood. They swim in murky international waters, competing for prey. The sick are easy prey—whether rich or poor, insured or not.