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McKinsey taught Big Pharma how to price-gouge

Leaked slides document the lies, sleaze and profiteering.

Cory Doctorow
 

Cory Doctorow

 

2 days ago*4 min read

A spooky tombstones posed against a background of pills in blister
packaging. The tombstone is covered in a collage of faded faces of
old-timey people. Atop the tombstone dances Rich Uncle Pennybags from
Monopoly, who has removed his face to reveal a grinning death's head
mask behind it. Behind him is the wordmark for McKinsey and Company.
Image: Foundin_a_attic (modified) https://www.flickr.com/photos/
foundin_a_attic/32844169425/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/
foundin_a_attic/31992834414/ CC BY

Americans pay 300% more for their medicine than people in other
wealthy countries, thanks to the dirty tricks, lies and profiteering
of the pharma industry. As part of its investigation into this, the
House Oversight Committee is looking into the role that archvillain
"consultants" McKinsey...