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by ScottBurson 3021 days ago
It occurred to me, reading a few days ago that Trump had suggested that some drug dealers should face the death penalty, that maybe that should apply to some of these pharma executives.

I don't actually support the use of the death penalty, at least not in cases like this, but it is astonishing that we allow thinly-disguised kickbacks to doctors for prescribing addictive drugs. That's as much pushing as what the neighborhood drug dealer does — and more effective. This scam needs to be shut down yesterday.