Big Pharma’s image sinks to new low amid opioid crisis, high drug prices
Martin Shkreli, former CEO of Turing, mocks his way through a congressional hearing on drug pricing and later called lawmakers imbeciles. (credit: CPSAN)
The pharmaceutical industry has outdone itself.
It is now the most widely hated industry in the US, unseating the federal government as the lowest of the low, according to a new Gallup poll.
In the August 2019 poll, Americans were more than twice as likely to have a negative view of pharmaceutical companies than to have a positive view of them—that is, 58% held negative views while 27% held positive views, yielding a net-positive score of -31 points in the poll.