How can this be legal?
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Purdue Pharma files for bankruptcy with $10B plan to settle claims
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#12Looks like they got a golden escape hatch. Sounds like this arm of the company will end up controlled by a government trust. The best outcome would probably be the government running the operation at break even, lowering costs, and heavily regulating how much product it could give to hospitals.
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#13Looks like they got a golden escape hatch. Sounds like this arm of the company will end up controlled by a government trust. The best outcome would probably be the government running the operation at break even, lowering costs, and heavily regulating how much product it could give to hospitals.
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#14https://www.statnews.com/2019/09/09/purdue-pharma-data-downp...
Re: Purdue Pharma files for bankruptcy with $10B plan to settle claims
#15Looks like they got a golden escape hatch. Sounds like this arm of the company will end up controlled by a government trust. The best outcome would probably be the government running the operation at break even, lowering costs, and heavily regulating how much product it could give to hospitals.
The best outcome would be directing resources at preventing and treating opioid addiction, not at punishing the drug manufacturer.
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#16How can this be legal?
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Yeah this. I really wish there was some way to sentence these billionaires to the middle class for the rest of their lives. Some sort of "external" prison where their net worth is held to that of the median net worth of the OMB's "middle class" range.