Thirty years ago, the head of the drug company Merck made some remarkably candid comments about his distress that his company's market was limited to sick people. Suggesting he would like Merck to be more like the maker of Wrigley's chewing gum, the CEO said it had long been his dream to make drugs for
healthy people, to "sell to everyone." That dream now drives the marketing machinery of the most profitable industry on earth. From award-winning Ray Moynihan, - one of the world's top medical journalists -
Selling Sickness reveals how widening the boundaries of illness and lowering the threshold for treatments is creating millions of new patients and billions in new profits. This in turn is…
As a single woman writer with a very modest income, I have struggled and struggled for years to pay ever increasing health insurance premiums.
Health costs are going through the ROOF and much of this… i found this book to be a real eye opener as to what goes on behind the scenes. Bottom line: it's all about the money...at the expense of our health. I highly reccomend everyone to read this book…
