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grueztoday at 5:21 PM2 repliesview on HN

Again, no. If some drug company killed a single person with a weird side effect that they buried, do you think it'll be discovered, much less prosecuted? The Sacklers got prosecuted because the opiod epidemic was huge, not because they passed some magical threshold so it's magically fine.


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khrisstoday at 8:27 PM

> The Sacklers got prosecuted because the opiod epidemic was huge

Sure, but which one of them is in prison? Now compare the prison time an avg person would get for theft.

b3ingtoday at 5:25 PM

But you can deny life saving treatments if you are a health insurance company

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