Pfizer's $35 Million Fine

[El Blanco]

You act as if this is money to sneeze at. Do you know the first thing you have to learn if you are going to be rich?

The value of a dollar.

$35 million is going to hurt.

I will say that they should also lose any profits they made as a result of their marketing the drug, but that is very different from saying "they have to pay more because their bank account is bigger".

And are you sure we are talking about their profits and not their income?

[derrida]

$35 million is nothing to a company like Pfizer, not even a half of the marketing budget for a single drug. It's a figure well within spillage estimates for an entity that size. If it's really gonna make a difference, show me how Pfizer's stock price has suffered.