Like every company, Merck doesn't have any money that it didn't get from the sales of its products. Therefore, this whopping "settlement" of $950 million was nothing more than a redistribution of the money people paid to use the Merck drugs. Nobody at Merck suffers even a dime's worth of loss when "the company" is fined. I think it is important to keep this concept in mind whenever we hear that some big company - or group of companies - makes a large payout. Think, cigarette companies.
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