A Whistleblower’s Guide to the Pharmaceutical Industry
Here’s to the big drug maker
Selling their stuff to any taker
The white collar thugs
Who off-label their drugs
They pay off your physician
And call him a first-rate clinician
On any given day
They co-opt the FDA
Testing their drugs abroad
Makes it hard to detect the fraud
Promoting themselves on Tee Vee
Giving away samples for free
Advertising behind home plate
For drugs to get you a fun date
Purporting to cure life’s woes
Even for those with green toes
And if I have Aye dee dee
There must be a drug for me
For the child who’s a little hostile
Give him a drug to make him docile
Sometimes they invent new pills
Other times they concoct new ills
Operating in the name of science
As to ethics and morality in defiance
Conspiring to fix drug prices
That’s only one of their vices
Out for the public good?
They ain’t no robin hood!
Their legions visit providers
With donuts, coffee and even sliders
They use to give away much more
But than the feds went for the score
Their execs get paid lots of dough
Probably to conceal what they know
And even when their drugs fail
They still book revenue for the sale
Sometimes their drugs cause injury
It’s third party payors’ responsibility
And when the feds impose a fine?
It’s too small to keep them in line
Watching the economy tank
Stashing their bucks in the bank
Looking to Sell even more
Making health costs soar
So that’s how it is done
Big pharma sure makes a ton!