Drugs provide society with enormous benefits:

they reduce mortality and morbidity; 
relieve pain and suffering; 
are less expensive forms of treatment than surgery and hospitalization, 
are more readily accessible to a larger portion of the population than are more expensive technologies and have enabled physicians to see more patients with improved
treatment outcomes. 
The U.S. spends over $300 billion drugs annually, and we expect safe and effective drugs. Yet society seems to have a special place for the U.S. Drug Industry, because they do produce these life savings/sustaining products. Yet within the past few years, issues have been raised that problem some of these company's ethics and the safety of some of these drugs. problem: Should we treat abuses/unethical behavior in the U.S. drug industry and our entire health care industry differently than we do in the banking industry or auto industry? Why or why not?