Prescription for profit.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: Tilting at windmills - Brief article

Drug companies are so afraid of competition from cheaper generics--drugs that have the same combination of ingredients possessed by the name brands and that come out after the name drug's patent has expired--that they are taking elaborate steps to keep the generics off the market. One, recently reported by NBC's David Faber, is to bribe the generic makers not to sell their version. As one physician points out: "Imagine a Super Bowl game where one...