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For McKesson, the Mission is Price Manipulation Empty For McKesson, the Mission is Price Manipulation

Post by ironboltbruce Tue Nov 08, 2011 3:54 pm


FOR MCKESSON CORPORATION, THE MISSION IS PRICE MANIPULATION
Global Revolution 1: American Revolution 2: Day 53: Communication 1
IronBoltBruce's Kleptocracy Chronicles for 8 Nov 2011 (g1a2d0053c1)
How many examples of greed and corruption must you see before you act?


With 2010 revenues of $108.7 billion and earnings of $1.2 billion, McKesson Corporation ranks #15 on the Fortune 500. It is the nation's largest healthcare provider, with pharmaceuticals distribution being the backbone of the company: One-third of all medicines used in the U.S. run through the McKesson pipeline. The company is also the dominant player in healthcare information systems, as more than 70% of our major hospitals use its technology to digitize prescriptions and patient medical records.

McKesson is also one of the U.S. government's largest contractors with billions in federal contracts awarded annually, over $4.6 billion in 2010 alone. It also ranks high in the POGO (Project On Government Oversight) Federal Contractor Misconduct Database (FCMD), with 14 documented instances of misconduct totalling more than $1.3 billion.

http://tinyurl.com/7xl7yws

Aside from a history of securities fraud beginning with the infamous McKesson-Robbins scandal of 1938 to their more recent McKessonHBOC debacle, the focus of McKesson's white-collar criminal activity is the manipulation of prices paid for pharmaceuticals. As they compete with the CIA for the "America's Drug Dealer" moniker, obviously the more they charge for each prescription that moves through their pipeline the more money they make. Here's a judge's description of how one of their recent schemes worked:

"Beginning in 2001, FDB and McKesson reached a secret agreement to raise the markup between WAC (wholesale average cost)and AWP (average wholesale price) from its standard 20% to 25% for over four hundred drugs. ... McKesson communicated these new 25% WAC to AWP markups to FDB, which then published AWPs with the new markup... McKesson has estimated that by 2002, 95% of all prescription drug manufacturers used the inflated 25% markup, and by 2004, 99% of all prescription drug manufacturers did so. ... The scheme ended on March 15, 2005, when FDB told its customers that it would 'no longer survey drug wholesalers for information relating to' AWP. The scheme resulted in higher profits for retail pharmacies that purchase drugs on the basis of WAC but are reimbursed on the basis of AWP, a differential called 'the spread'. ... McKesson implemented the scheme in order to provide a greater 'spread' to important retail pharmacy clients like Rite Aid as well as to its own pharmacy related businesses."

Nobody went to jail over this, but thanks to a class-action lawsuit McKesson was forced to pay a $350 million penalty:

"The prices of about 1,400 branded drugs are about to get a little cheaper because of a $352.7 million class action settlement with wholesale drug distributor McKesson... In addition to the payment, the prices of 1,442 medicines will be lowered by 4 percent, according to a federal court ruling... The court-approved deal wraps up a lengthy case in which McKesson and First Databank were accused of engaging in a 'racketeering enterprise to fraudulently increase the published 'average wholesale price' ('AWP') of over four hundred branded drugs by five percent from late 2001 to 2005,' Judge Patti Saris wrote. MediSpan published the same false prices... Affected drugs include Lipitor, Claritin, Prozac, Nexium, Plavix, Allegra, Wellbutrin, Ambien, Prilosec, Zantac, Valtrex, Zyprexa, Celebrex, Imitrex, Risperdal, Seroquel, and Neurontin."

http://tinyurl.com/7feoxy3

In April 2011 the U.S. Supreme Court decision in the "AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion" case made it easy for corporations to shield themselves from class action lawsuits like this going forward. But even if that shield is taken away, McKesson has an ample $442 million litigation reserve set aside so they can continue to focus on profits regardless of propriety:

http://tinyurl.com/7evs5bx


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SHOW ME WHAT KLEPTOCRACY LOOKS LIKE! THIS IS WHAT KLEPTOCRACY LOOKS LIKE!

Kleptocracy [klep-TOK-ruh-see]: A government or state in which those in power exploit national resources and steal; rule by a thief or thieves. See also the United States of America where, as Goethe said, "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." Want documented examples of the corporate greed that corrupts our government and fuels the Revolution? Find dozens here, with more to come:

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IT IS NO COINCIDENCE THAT OF THE LAST 14 U.S. PRESIDENTS, 7 HAVE BEEN DEMOCRATS AND 7 HAVE BEEN REPUBLICANS.

Our Kleptocracy-controlled media focuses on America's two-year election cycles as if who wins or loses in the swinging of the pendulum was a matter of life or death, when in fact even at the Presidential level it makes no more difference than the outcomes of Monday Night Football, American Idol, Dancing With The Stars, Hillbilly Handfishing or the trial of Michael Jackson's doctor. U.S. elections are staged primarily to give Sheeple the illusion of control so they will (a) vent their frustrations and expend their energy, emotions and resources supporting or attacking the Puppet on the Left hand or the Puppet on the Right, and consequently (b) never recognize and challenge the common omnipotent Puppetmaster.

There was no real change in 2008. There was no real change in 2010. There WILL be real change in 2012, but it won't be coming from tele-brainwashed couch potatoes, manipulated voter lists, rigged voting machines or predetermined ballot counts. It will be coming from us...

The 99 Percent

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I AM NOT ANONYMOUS. I AM AN AMERICAN.

I am not just a Consumer. I am a Citizen.

I will no longer be labeled Left or Right, Liberal or Conservative, Demopublican or Republocrat.

I will no longer follow Puppets labeled Left or Right, Liberal or Conservative, Demopublican or Republocrat.

I am the People. And I am coming for the Puppetmasters.

I am part of the 99 Percent. And I demand the following:

1. End the Fed.
2. Reverse Citizens United.
3. Repeal PATRIOT Act.
4. Expose 9/11 Truth.
5. End Profit Wars.
6. Refund Taxpayer Trillions.
7. Imprison the Kleptocrats.
8. Single Term Limits.

Or, if these demands are not addressed promptly:

1. Regime Change.

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LABELS (A POEM OF PROTEST)

"Democrat", "Republican",
The parties of the system;
Puppets both, for sale their votes,
No character or wisdom.

"Liberal", "Conservative",
For change or status quo?
Pick either one, the change is none,
All charlatans and whores.

Far "Left" we place the Anarchists,
Libertarians claim far "Right";
Yet both decry the government:
False continuum brought to light.

For oil, "We" bomb their mud huts,
Strip them bare, then offer "Aid";
And fake their retribution as
Pretext - a false flag raised.

Unarmed hundred thousands killed
By weapons of "Defense",
While rights are lost for "Freedom" sake -
On profit, all depends.

With stroke of pen, the "Patriot" Act,
And patriots' gifts are taken;
Then "Citizens United" leaves
Our citizens forsaken.

We protest loss of liberties,
Put "World Wide Web" to use;
Cloudmark Authority censors us
For "messaging abuse".

They label us to finger-point,
With labels, "They" deride us;
Their labels keep us all at bay,
For with labels, "They" divide us.

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