Fresh off their swine flu vaccine scandal from last year, pharmaceuticals are in the process of cutting critical medical supplies from Greece. Like the banksters, the pharmaceuticals threaten society as soon as their mega-profits become at risk.
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Insulin giant pulls medicine from Greece over price cut
By Malcolm Brabant BBC News, Athens
May 29, 2010
The world's leading supplier of the anti-diabetes drug insulin is withdrawing a state-of-the-art medication from Greece.
Novo Nordisk, a Danish company, objects to a government decree ordering a 25% price cut in all medicines.
A campaign group has condemned the move as "brutal capitalist blackmail".
More than 50,000 Greeks with diabetes use Novo Nordisk's product, which is injected via an easy-to-use fountain pen-like device.
A spokesman for the Danish pharmaceutical company said it was withdrawing the product from the Greek market because the price cut would force its business in Greece to run at a loss.
The company was also concerned that the compulsory 25% reduction would have a knock-on effect because other countries use Greece as a key reference point for setting drug prices.
'Insensitive'
Greece wants to slash its enormous medical bill as part of its effort to reduce the country's crippling debt.
People with diabetes in Greece have warned that some could die as a result of this action.
