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Article: Blast for drug companies
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- Sunday Star-Times
- Article date:
- December 22, 1996
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CopyrightCopyright 1996 Sunday Star-Times. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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PHARMAC boss David Moore has launched a scathing attack on drug
companies, saying their eagerness to sue New Zealand's drug-funding
organisation stops people getting access to better medicines.
Pharmac is involved in seven cases of litigation and Mr Moore
estimates it could cost the organisation up to $2 million to defend
them -- money which he says should be spent on medicine.
"Drug companies like to put on a human face -- to be there for
the
good of patients -- but the bottom line for them is profits. They
are interested only in money.
"Pharmac has got limited money, but we're in the business of