Posted on 10/01/2013 6:30:03 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Merck & Co (MRK.N), taking a cue from other drugmakers that have slashed research spending to bolster earnings, on Tuesday said it plans to cut annual operating costs by $2.5 billion by the end of 2015 and eliminate 8,500 jobs.
By slimming down, Merck aims to narrow its focus to products with the best chance of winning regulatory approval and achieving substantial sales, while jettisoning research products with less likelihood of success.
The planned job cuts, representing more than 10 percent of the company's global workforce of 81,000 employees, would be in addition to previously announced cuts of 7,500 positions.
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Obamacare!
It’ll cure what ails you, by renaming it and declaring you cured.
Isn’t this what opponents of Obamacare warned. That drugmakers would shelf innovation and research due to the costly and burdensome regs. Of course Rooters glosses over this and ignores it.
Likelihood of success = Death Panel approval probability
8500 highly paid individuals
Man, think of the insurance money they’ll save...
Countries with socialized medicine do not create new drug therapies.
Elderly, minorities and children to be hardest hit. /s
8,500 plus 7,500 16,000 more ‘Dead Beats’ to join the ranks of all the present ‘Dead Beats’. There are plenty of jobs for these people!
>> It’ll cure what ails you, by renaming it
... and by employing the simple fact that “dead people don’t get sick”.
You can bet that many of the drugs that Merck stopped working on are for debilitating but RARE diseases. No incentive... no research... no help for those suffering from it.
Thanks Barry!
They might have had a cure or effective treatment in the works for IDLE (ObamaCare renaming some cancers)! Who knows.
More wonderful economic news in the glorious new economy.
Translation:
Growth seems unlikely.
Batten down the hatches to weather the storm.
Dingdingdingdingdingdingding you win the prize.
Obamacare is death to research
Drug companies will go the way of doctors
Thre will be masses with obamacare cards and no providers
Innovative care will be GONE
For the past 10 years, medical care has been drug sales. Mds don’t want to know anything about how to cure disease or include patients in their care.
Patients wxpect drugs
Third party and govt pays.
Now govt takes over
But govt health care Medicare has been bankrupt. Now obamacare hops on. To a bankrupt system. Obama didnt ask the doctors. The doctors don’t know anything about this anyway having been socialized on a third party payer system
So doctors throw up their hands and leave. Drug companies will do the same.
That contributes to unemployment
It reduces quality of care like we haven’t seen
Instead of scrambling, people will do well to rethink it, go to pre third party payer thinking (1930s)
Exercise, eating right, fighting addiction, proper sleep, healthy social life, understanding of first aid, accident prevention
Obama, I am told by health food store denizens,
has encroached on supplement industry.
I am watching big pharm
If the o had been President rather than Teddy we’d still be dying from Malaria.
Well, at least we get a true example of what it means to be “decimated”. It’s most often used incorrectly.
Big pharm firms should divest their current models and go into the funeral service business.
The supplement industry is the worst. It feeds off of fear and ignorance. Modern day snake oil salesmen.
Research is im important and noting results. Big pharm does the se. The system doesn’t care about healing as much as it thrives on sick people.
Which is what pur medical system does anyway whoch is why it is flawed, sick and bankrupt and why BO Is taking advantage
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