SEC Announces Its Largest-Ever Whistleblower Awards

Re:SEC Announces Its Largest-Ever Whistleblower Awards by cr1895 on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @04:56AM (#16626915)

>is being disbarred from participating in Medicare/Medicaid. Depending on the disease the drug treats, that can be 50% of your market. And you're disbarred as an entity, not just the individual drug.

So the people on Medicare/Medicaid who may benefit from the drug are punished?

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Re:SEC Announces Its Largest-Ever Whistleblower Awards by refurb on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @06:38PM (#16633451)

You perfectly highlighted the problem of using this to penalize a company!

How do you punish a misbehaving company without hurting the people using their products?

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Re:SEC Announces Its Largest-Ever Whistleblower Awards by testvox on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @08:19PM (#16634101)

Nationalize it.

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Re:SEC Announces Its Largest-Ever Whistleblower Awards by refurb on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @10:39AM (#16638352)

I don't have a lot of faith the gov't can run a pharma company. Plus, confiscating a company is going to chase away any future investment.

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