Freelance writer and author Katharine Greider has written a highly informative descriptive book on how and why drug companies are such powerful, successful businesses. Entitled The Big Fix: How The Pharmaceutical Industry Rips Off American Consumers she expresses her views on the state of today’s pharmaceutical industry and what it means to consumers. Take a listen and find out how the system works, how the situation got this bad, and how you’re manipulated to keep it going.