Enough is enough. Any pharma company caught price-fixing should be dissolved. Its assets should be confiscated. Its patents should be placed in the public domain. Its executives should be subject to criminal charges.
Back before the neoliberal revolution, the US used to throw people in jail for price fixing.
Example: Robert C. Townsend in his book Up the Organization 1970 warned, if your customers are all on the east side of town and your competitors customers are all on the west side, you're both going to jail.
Now no one goes to jail unless they steal from other rich people.
Example: Robert C. Townsend in his book Up the Organization 1970 warned, if your customers are all on the east side of town and your competitors customers are all on the west side, you're both going to jail.
Now no one goes to jail unless they steal from other rich people.