Big Pharma Loves You: Free Viagra for the Unemployed!

Posted by Alex in Medicine, Politics on May 25, 2009 at 6:19 pm


Don’t ever say that Big Pharma doesn’t care about you … Pfizer is offering free Viagra (and other drugs) to Americans who have lost their job:

Pfizer Inc. said Thursday it will give away more than 70 of its most widely prescribed drugs, including Lipitor and Viagra, for up to a year to people who have lost jobs since Jan. 1 and have been taking the drug for three months or more. The announcement comes as the unemployment rate topped 8.9 percent in April.

Pfizer stands to benefit, too _ by keeping its customers, and with a tax write-off that will cover much of the cost of the donations. The move also buys the world’s largest drugmaker some good will as Washington looks to overhaul the health care system.

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10 comments to "Big Pharma Loves You: Free Viagra for the Unemployed!"

  1. Dog Droppings
    May 26th, 2009 at 6:18 am

    Typical American attitude: Get the unemployed (people with the least job skills) to have more kids.

  2. Skipweasel
    May 26th, 2009 at 6:47 am

    Hard times.

  3. Gauldar
    May 26th, 2009 at 10:08 am

    I guess free little blue pills are big pharma's way of getting the male population hooked.

  4. Kalel
    May 26th, 2009 at 11:43 am

    Viagra for the unemployed.

    When there's nowhere to go but UP.

  5. Mouserz
    May 26th, 2009 at 11:56 am

    boneriffic!

  6. Gellner
    May 26th, 2009 at 1:36 pm

    how can this be allowed? the pharmy co.s are getting people hooked on their product?

  7. Reechard
    May 26th, 2009 at 3:25 pm

    Coming from a major pharmaceutical company I'm convinced that this is somehow more self-serving than good willed.

  8. caitlin13
    May 26th, 2009 at 6:41 pm

    And yet they've done nothing for the issues women face with their own libidos.

  9. ted
    May 27th, 2009 at 5:54 am

    Women have libidos?

  10. Megan
    May 27th, 2009 at 2:17 pm

    Hurray! and how about free birth control for all the unemployeed women who can't afford to participate in the viagra baby boom?


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