The Pharmaceutical Executive magazine published earlier this year its annual ranking of the Top 50 Pharmaceutical Companies by revenue. The following table lists the top 25 global companies ranked based on sales in 2011: Source: Pharmaceutical Executive The top 50 companies accounted sold $610 billion in human prescription pharmaceuticals last year and just the top 10 accounted for 59% of the …

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Interesting chart on how to improve the U.S. healthcare system: Click to Enlarge         Source:  Best Care at Lower Cost: The Path to Continuously Learning Health Care in America, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences

The U.S. spends the highest amount per capita on healthcare and gets the lowest value for it. While some portion of the total money spent goes to unnecessary “defensive” medical procedures performed by doctors and other healthcare providers a large portion of the funds spent is actually wasted on paperwork. In fact, the healthcare industry …

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The healthcare industry in the U.S. is dominated by a few large companies.Private health insurance firms’ direct written premium totaled $395 billion in 2010. With additional health premiums written by life and other insurers, the total health premiums amounted to $560 billion according to SNL Financial. The number of people with no health insurance increased from 46.3 million in 2008 to 50.7 million …

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