Pharmaceutical Companies

Pharmaceutical companies are making more and more money each year from consumers and other sources of revenue. The cost of this profit along with rising costs of research are being passed on to patients. An increasing number of these patients are becoming unable to afford to pay these rising costs. Stagnant economic growth, stagnant wages and a bleak housing market making increasingly difficult. Add to this the fact that doctors are continually being targeted by pharmaceutical companies to try certain prescriptions which may (or may not) be the best option for patients. These practices on the part of pharmaceutical companies put the relationship nurses have with patients as an advocate for their care at risk, while lining the pockets of Wall Street corporations.