Pfizer Will Give Free Drugs To Jobless

Pfizer is making a splash with news that it will give away 70 of its drugs, such as Lipitor and Viagra, to people "who lost jobs since Jan. 1 and have been on the Pfizer drug for three months or more," according to the AP. The AP points out, "The move could earn Pfizer some goodwill in that debate after long being a target of critics of drug industry prices and sales practices" and "also likely will help keep those patients loyal to Pfizer brands." Dr. Jorge Puente, Pfizer's head of pharmaceuticals outside the U.S. and Europe, told the AP, "Everybody knows now a neighbor, a relative who has lost their job and is losing their insurance. People are definitely hurting out there. Our aim is to help people bridge this point." Patients can call 866-706-2400 to sign up; in July, they'll be able to sign up through this website.

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By Jen Chung in News on May 14, 2009 3:26 PM

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pissflaps

do subway masturbators have access to this?

drewo

I will have to run this idea past my own personal drug dealer.

babyhitler

so that jobless people can knock somebody up and then fuck their lives up even worse with the worse std on the planet, a baby? Then that child will grow up with loser parents who aren't married, hate each other cause of the kid, live in dire financial straights and the kid will have a pathology that will cause him/her to live a life of crime culminating in the murder of either you when you are old or your children? no thanks.