What is Big Pharma's position on online pharmacy

My belief is that pharmaceutical manufacturers, like another other business enterprise, will seek the best advantage for their company. That edge can come from a superior product, cheaper pricing, more efficient production or regulatory and legislative environments that work to their advantage.

In fact, by law companies sole goal is to provide the maximum return to their shareholders. To expect anything else from companies is simply wishful thinking.

However, a company's reality is not the only reality. A politician has the incentive to give the voters what they want. An individual faced with high medication bills has incentive to look elsewhere for cheaper medications.

All these realities battle for supremacy. And the winner is...? To mix metaphors, "the jury is still out." But if you would like to read a balanced view of Big Pharma's role in the process, you can check out the following article.

"Of Pills and Profits: In Defense of Big Pharma

Peter W. Huber

The more our health depends on their little pills, the more we seem to hate big drug companies. In The Constant Gardener (2000), John le Carré assigns to the pharmaceutical industry the role played by the KGB in his earlier novels. A villainous pharmaceutical company is using Kenya as a testing ground for a lethally defective drug, and people who find out about it die, too. Four recent, non-fiction indictments of the industry tell a similar story.* Conflating the four into one, one might title them collectively How Big Pharma Deceives, Endangers, and Rips Us Off, with the Complicity of Doctors. More..."