An Image To Maintain: GAO Profit Picture Of Drug Industry Is Good To Store Away For Future Debates
Executive Summary
Big pharma has been highly successful at changing the debate from the level of drug company profitability to who shares what part of dollars generated by drug sales, but there are still lingering efforts to define and describe overall drug industry profitability and put it in the overall context of the broader economy. These efforts are backburner for now but will come back at some point in the future. Some of the portrayals are friendlier to pharma than others.