"Our healthcare system isn’t about health—it’s about business." Big Pharma's immoral business model.
Helping people choose to stop being victimized by predatory profiteers. A vast curation of verifiable evidence that the medical monopoly isn't healthcare; it's corporate psychopathy.
Goldman Sachs analysts attempted to address a touchy subject for biotech companies… “Is curing patients a sustainable business model?” analysts ask in an April 10 report… “While this proposition carries tremendous value for patients and society, it could represent a challenge for genome medicine developers looking for sustained cash flow.”
For Big Pharma, there is no financial incentive to heal you, because a patient cured is a customer lost. Even if you are not sick, Big Pharma is still targeting you, trying to convince you that you are ill so that you will try its latest pill.
Big Pharma already owns the regulators so proper monitoring of side effects is rare. When investigations do happen, they are usually perfunctory — even the most toxic drugs never lead to jail time and any fines are only a small percentage of profits. “Cause the harm, treat the harm” is a vastly more profitable business model than cures. Causing harm increases profits by 100x or more (a single injury can produce a lifetime of profitable treatments). Said simply, causing harm and disease massively increases the size of the market for pharmaceutical products so that’s Big Pharma’s business model today.
Drug makers rarely cure disease, but they show a profound level of professional expertise in selling sickness.
Contents
Conventional (Allopathic) Medicine: A Corrupt & Failed System
Big Pharma & Biotech Defined
Immoral Business Model: Introduction
More Evidence
How the U.S. Came to Be Strangled by Monopolized Medicine and Big Pharma
Free Reference Guide
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Conventional (Allopathic) Medicine: A Corrupt & Failed System
Failed Health Outcomes — The U.S. spends nearly twice the per-capita amount on healthcare than the next highest spender, yet Americans are the most chronically ill, and rank 48th in life expectancy, among other countries. In addition, medical misdiagnosis causes permanent harm and death to 795,000 people every year.
Verifiably Corrupt — Establishment medicine as a system* is verifiably corrupt, serving the interests of industry — not health. (*Obviously, not every individual working in establishment medicine is unethical. Rather, the system that educated / indoctrinated them, and that sets policy, hires, pays, and promotes them is verifiably corrupted.)
Big Pharma & Biotech: Immoral Business Model (you’re here) — Corporations, by design, are beholden to profit above all else, acting as powerful entities that are “essentially psychopathic and without conscience.” Pharmaceutical and biotech companies are the utmost example of corporate psychopathy, demonstrating inhumanity in response to human suffering.
Regulatory & Professional Betrayal — Government agencies entrusted to regulate the field of medicine fail to do so. The majority of influential professional organizations such as the American Medical Association are corrupted by industry.
Not Evidence/Science-Based — The bulk of establishment medicine’s standard of care is not based on unbiased, reproducible science. (We prove it here.)
Harms by Drug and Diagnostic — Establishment medicine providers routinely utilize diagnostic testing and “treatments” that cause harm (“adverse”, “side” effects). Get verifiable evidence of the harms, organized by drug, treatment, or test (mammograms, CT scans, antibiotics, statins, benzos, etc).
Failed Philosophy & Strategies — Allopathic medicine (also called conventional medicine, Western medicine, and Rockefeller medicine) was created to exploit the profit potential of drug patents. Born from a compromised report published in 1910, this system does not acknowledge the conditions under which the human body creates health, nor does it seek to identify and resolve the root causes of illness. On the contrary, it suppresses symptoms with drugs, creating more symptoms and distracting efforts from true healing. Diagnosis is disconnected from the wisdom inherent in the purpose and message of symptoms.
What’s the Impact from Creating More than 90,000 Diagnoses? — Establishment medicine’s diagnosis system (the ICD-10-CM) is 22 chapters and 288 sections, with more than 90,000 possible diagnoses. The U.S. Dept of Health & Human Services takes another 115 pages to document accompanying rules. Naming constellations of symptoms vs. identifying root causes: how has it impacted health?
Big Pharma & Biotech Defined
The phrase “big pharma” refers to the wealthy and powerful corporations that develop and sell pharmaceutical drugs, including Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Abbott, Merck & Co., Eli Lilly and Company, and Biogen among others. The term biotechnology or “biotech” is basically synonymous with big pharma:
The biotechnology industry is composed of hundreds of companies that fuse biology and technology to develop drugs and related products for the treatment of diseases and medical conditions. Today’s biotechnology industry includes companies that make medical devices and diagnostics, biofuels, biomaterials, pollution controls, and more. Among the largest companies in the industry are those researching and producing pharmaceutical solutions. – Investopedia
Big pharma is big business:
“As of 2021, the U.S. pharmaceutical industry has a market size of $560 billion. Over 4.76 billion retail prescriptions were filled in the U.S. in 2022.” [source]
“The largest pharmaceutical company in the U.S. is Pfizer, with a revenue of $100.33 billion.” [2023 source]
Institutional investors hold more than two-thirds of Pfizer’s corporate shares. The top three institutional shareholders are Vanguard, BlackRock, and State Street. [source]
The top three institutional shareholders of Moderna are Baillie Gifford & Co., Vanguard, and BlackRock. [source]
Immoral Business Model: Introduction
17 min – Mar 21, 2025, Sharyl Attkisson, award-winning journalist, provides a clear, compelling, and verifiable history of the shift from journalistic integrity to mainstream media’s compliance with Big Pharma’s agendas
40 min – Jul 15, 2017 – “Former CEO of Eli Lilly & Co Exposes Big Pharma Corruption”, Dr. John Virapen, 35 years as an executive of Eli Lilly & Co
More From Pharma Whistleblower, Dr. John Virapen
The former managing director of drug giant Eli Lilly and Company in Sweden continues to blow the whistle on the business practices of the pharmaceutical industry, scoring a major victory in announcing that his first book, Side Effects: Death. Confessions of a Pharma-Insider, will be turned into a full-length feature film. John Virapen, who began his career with “Big Pharma” in 1968 as a salesman knocking on doctors’ doors, rose through the ranks to realize what he was pitching were not drugs, but death. Virapen was well aware early on that thousands had died or committed suicide by taking the drugs he was pushing. “I indirectly contributed to the death of . . . people, whose shadows now haunt me,” he explained in his book. Spending nearly 30 years pushing Big Pharma’s wares onto doctors, who would then push them onto an unsuspecting, trusting public, Virapen made millions dealing drugs, crisscrossing the globe in the hopes of convincing healthcare professionals to use his company’s products, even when he knew they were unsafe. – Aug 30, 2014
15 min – Aug 29, 2023, In the first 3 minutes, Peter Berg explains the evidence of corruption in the FDA approval of OxyContin
“Our healthcare system isn’t about health—it’s about business.”
After the tragic and unexpected loss of my husband Woody to the antidepressant Zoloft that he was prescribed for insomnia, I was thrust into a world I never imagined—one where medicine wasn’t solely about healing, but deeply entangled in a system that prioritizes profit over safety, buries harms, and keeps the public in the dark. For over two decades, I’ve had a front-row seat to how this system truly operates—not the illusion of rigorous oversight we see in medical journals or glossy pharmaceutical ads, but the reality of how industry influence is woven into every stage. I’ve met with regulators, testified before the FDA and Congress, filed a wrongful death and failure-to-warn lawsuit against Pfizer, and earned a seat on the FDA’s Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee… Our healthcare system isn’t about health—it’s about business.
Pharmaceutical Criminality is Pervasive
Barely a month goes by without some pharmaceutical company in court, somewhere. Criminal convictions are common and fines tally into the billions. You’d think this would be well-known in the medical profession. It isn’t.
85% of Big Pharma Companies Studied Were Fined for Illegal Activity; The Hurdles Required to Get to the Point of Fining Pharma are Beyond Difficult
A 2020 peer-reviewed article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association… studied both the type of illegal activity and financial penalties imposed on pharma companies between the years 2003 and 2016. Of the companies studied, 85 percent (22 of 26) had received financial penalties for illegal activities with a total combined dollar value of $33 billion. The illegal activities included manufacturing and distributing adulterated drugs, misleading marketing, failure to disclose negative information about a product (i.e. significant side effects including death), bribery to foreign officials, fraudulently delaying market entry of competitors, pricing and financial violations, and kickbacks… Many of the Big Pharma players are repeat offenders. Prosecuting these companies is no mean feat. Cases often drag for years, making the avenue of justice and resolution inaccessible to all but the well-funded, persistent, and steadfast. If a case is won, pharma’s usual response is to appeal to a higher court and start the process again… Taking these giants to court requires nerves of steel, a willingness to surrender years of life to the task, and very deep pockets. For every conviction, there are countless settlements, the company agreeing to pay out, but making no admission of guilt. A notable example is the $35 million settlement made, after 15 years of legal maneuvering, by Pfizer in a Nigerian case that alleged the company had experimented on 200 children without their parent’s knowledge or consent.
More Evidence
By Design, Corporations are Legally Beholden to Profit, Not to People or the Planet — “Pfizer and Other Sociopaths… The world’s dominant institution [the corporation] is essentially psychopathic, being amoral and without conscience. A YouTube documentary is based on his book. Bakan shows that corporations not only put… profit above everything else, they are bound to do so (at least, in the United States) by law.” See also: What a $2 Million Per Dose Gene Therapy Reveals About Drug Pricing: “A Record Price: The gene therapy Zolgensma helped children born with a fatal disease, spinal muscular atrophy, grow up to run and play. But the cost was stunning: $2 million per dose. Cashing In: While taxpayers and small charities funded the drug’s early development, executives, venture-capital backers and a pharma giant have reaped the profits. Priced Out: The drug’s cost adds to the nation’s ballooning bill for prescription drugs and puts Zolgensma out of reach for kids in many low- and middle-income countries.”
Big Pharma Monopolistic Control Extends to Regulatory Agencies and University Research Journals — And media covrage. And medical school training. And what is prescribed by doctors and used in hospitals. See also: The Pharmaceutical Industry’s Role in U.S. Medical Education See also: CNN Exclusive: The more opioids doctors prescribe, the more money they make See also:
