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In reply to the discussion: Johnson & Johnson created a powerful drug, promoted it illegally & covered up side effects [View all]nationalize the fed
(2,169 posts)40. How many of the source documents
provided in the 15 chapter piece have you examined?
Huff post is the publisher. Steven Brill is the author. But you knew that.
Steven Brill (born August 22, 1950)[1] is an American lawyer and journalist-entrepreneur. Brill's most recent reporting and book is concerned with healthcare costs.
Brill was born in Queens, New York. He is a graduate of Deerfield Academy (B.A. 1972) and Yale University law school (J.D. 1975)...
In 1989 Brill founded Court TV (now TruTV) and the network launched on July 1, 1991. Among its original anchors were Fred Graham, who was still at the network twenty years later, Cynthia McFadden and Terry Moran, who later joined ABC News....
...In 2009, Brill and two other media executives created Journalism Online to help newspapers and magazines charge for online access...
...In February 2013 Brill published Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us as a Time magazine magazine cover story. The investigation of billing practices revealed that hospitals and their executives are gaming the system to maximize revenue. Brill claims patients receive bills that have little relationship to the care provided and that the free market in American medicine is a myth, with or without Obamacare.[20] The 24,000-plus word article took up the entire feature section of the magazine, the first time in the history of TIME...
...Brill's newest healthcare reporting project, "Americas Most Admired Law Breaker," is a 15-part series detailing how Johnson & Johnson took an anti-psychotic drug, Risperdal, initially intended only for the treatment of psychotic disorders, and put it in the hands of children and the elderly in violation of FDA restrictions. It was published on September 15, 2015 on The Huffington Post...
Much MORE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Brill_(journalist)
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Johnson & Johnson created a powerful drug, promoted it illegally & covered up side effects [View all]
nationalize the fed
Sep 2015
OP
The setup for this story is pretty good... Those people who did this should be in jail
uponit7771
Sep 2015
#12
We'll have to get the Prison Industries to build more bunks - pharma, bankers, lobbyists, congress,
erronis
Sep 2015
#19
K & R. Thanks for this informative post. Johnson & Johnson and Big Pharma modern scourge.
appalachiablue
Sep 2015
#20