You might be amazed by the source of this quote about health care

The more things change, the more they stay the same. But not always. Sometimes they COMPLETELY change.

See if you can guess who said this…

“We try never to forget that medicine is for the people. It is not for the profits. The profits follow, and if we have remembered that, they have never failed to appear. The better we have remembered it, the larger they have been.”

No, it’s not some idealistic hippie doctor back in the 60s. George Merck spoke the lines in 1950. That was the year he stepped down after 25 years as the president of Merck & Co.

Hard to say how much of that statement is a heartfelt sentiment or a calculated attempt at corporate image building. But one thing is certain. If he meant every word of it, then he would never recognize what his company has become more than half a century later.