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Big Pharma
[ big fahr-muh ]
noun
- pharmaceutical companies considered collectively, especially with reference to their political and commercial influence:
The article attributes rising medical costs to private healthcare, Big Pharma, and insurance.
Word History and Origins
Origin of Big Pharma1
Example Sentences
McKinney's campaign cited Thanedar's lavish campaign spending as well as accepting donations from PACs representing Big Pharma, defense contractors and local utility monopolies as reasons for challenging Thanedar.
There’s no denying this tree has been poisoned by profit-seeking incentives that have produced giant, twisted branches like Big Pharma or health care insurance middlemen that profit from denying claims.
“Death of a Unicorn” leans closer toward the entertainment side of the spectrum, with Poulter stealing the show as entitled rich kid Shepard, whose Big Pharma family wants to milk the discovery of mythological creatures for money and drugs.
Per Reuters, Big Pharma has lobbied Trump for “phase-in tariffs on imported pharmaceutical products in hopes of reducing the sting from the charges and to allow time to shift manufacturing.”
He accused Collins’ staff of being “suddenly very hostile—a bad sign” in a meeting earlier in the week, but ultimately, he surmised that “big Pharma was behind this.”
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