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<blockquote data-quote="Glocktogo" data-source="post: 4234048" data-attributes="member: 1132">I don&#039;t think anyone is saying you&#039;re wrong that direct cash payments, aka &quot;kickbacks&quot; are illegal and not happening. I think they&#039;re saying your pointed defense of this distinction is, well, pointless! There&#039;s a symbiotic relationship between pharmaceutical companies and the prescribing doctors within the establishment medical systems. There&#039;s a reason Big Pharma advertises to patients, not doctors. They&#039;ve already bought the doctors by all those other means that don&#039;t qualify as kickbacks under criminal statutes. The ads are simply instructions to the sheep to go ask for those meds, which the doctors have been let&#039;s say &quot;enticed&quot; to write. They&#039;re writing those Rx&#039;s as much for the pharmaceutical companies as they are the patients. That&#039;s the distinction that deserves attention, not yours.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Glocktogo, post: 4234048, member: 1132"] I don't think anyone is saying you're wrong that direct cash payments, aka "kickbacks" are illegal and not happening. I think they're saying your pointed defense of this distinction is, well, pointless! There's a symbiotic relationship between pharmaceutical companies and the prescribing doctors within the establishment medical systems. There's a reason Big Pharma advertises to patients, not doctors. They've already bought the doctors by all those other means that don't qualify as kickbacks under criminal statutes. The ads are simply instructions to the sheep to go ask for those meds, which the doctors have been let's say "enticed" to write. They're writing those Rx's as much for the pharmaceutical companies as they are the patients. That's the distinction that deserves attention, not yours. [/QUOTE]

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