"The combined profits for the ten drug companies in the Fortune 500
($35.9 billion)
 were more than the profits for all the other 490 businesses put together 
($33.7 billion) [in 2002]. 
"Over the past two decades the pharmaceutical industry has moved very far from
its original high purpose of discovering and producing useful new drugs.
 Now primarily a marketing machine to sell drugs of dubious benefit, 
this industry uses its wealth and power to co-opt every institution
that might stand in its way, including the US Congress, the FDA,
academic medical centers, and the medical profession itself."
   ~ Dr. Marcia Angell, former Editor in Chief of
  The New England Journal of Medicine 
      [from: www.wanttoknow.info/healthcoverup ]