Posted on 08/08/2009 6:47:36 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
The nation's drugmakers stand ready to spend $150 million to help President Barack Obama overhaul health care this fall, according to numerous officials, a staggering sum that could dwarf attempts to derail his chief domestic priority.
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I am so damn disappointed...
Maybe Rahm made them an offer they couldn’t refuse...
They also gave Obama $2 million for his presidential campaign.
Once the takeover is complete, access to the expensive medications will be severely limited, especially to old people and people with limited life expectancies.
The cards are stacked against us, people. Stacked very high.
That particular "industry ass" would be Billy Tauzin, 25-year REPUBLICAN Congressman - now president of the Pharma lobbying firm in DC - who cut a secret deal to exempt the pharmaceutical industry from $80 BILLION in proposed new "costs" from "health care reform."
The taxpayers, of course and as expected, will pay those "costs" instead.
So it's really just another "go along to get along" K Street lobbying maneuver in the disgusting DC tradition that is utterly contemptuous of everyday America.
It’s just business.
They are attempting to protect themselves.
When/if Obama gains control of the industry they want to continue in business and get a piece of the financial pie.
The companies that oppose him or don’t assist him will be nationalized or destroyed.
It’s what he does.
History repeats itself. 70 years of misinformation, propaganda, and brainwashing have convinced the majority of the latest three generations that the power of the government is all that stands between the largest corporations and the people, with “big kkkorporate” always clamoring for small government, deregulation, and free markets so they can “subjugate us”. I am not joking when I say that the average young person has “learned” that the economic policy of fascism is laissez-faire, and that fascist social policy is “sink or swim”. History has been rewritten. The glory of classical liberalism has been corrupted, with the liberal tradition supplanted by a confluence of competing collectivist totalitarianisms (fascism, socialism, communism, environmentalism). Classical liberalism powered our escape from the tyranny of unelected kings and clergy, and modern liberalism ushered in a new tyranny of elected busybodies.
Totalitarianism has been conflated with liberty, and omnipotent total government has been bestowed with the aura of benevolence and a perversion of the notion of freedom.
So, like AARP, these buffoons attempt to buy friendship with Obama and his thugs... thinking that if they feed the tiger, it will not eat THEM. Understandable on an emotional level, idiocy on a logical level. Have these folks a PHaRMA ever read any history?
Hey. You write good. I’m gonna mine your reply for quotes, use them myself, and give you no credit.
That’s a left-handed compliment!
If I remember correctly, Blagoyevich said that it all went south for him in Illinois when he began to take on the drug companies to bring down their costs.
Some croocks probably expect to be among the few guests at the big SSocialist party when The Dear Leader will spread the wealth....BETWEEN THE HAPPY FEW,the “friends” of the regime.
Some could walk on their mother and father to get some food from their master...
See how it works in CHINA and RUSSIA...communists are doing their dirty business with no shame
Drug companies cooperated/knelt at the throne, so they are favorable. Insurance companies didn’t, so they are being demonized. Chicago-style thug politics in action.
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Remember that anything that Obama accuses his opponents of doing is what he is actually doing himself.
There are no more ‘John Galts’ in big business except for perhaps the oil industry. The rest of them are sniveling little suck up cowards.
If Deathcare does come to be we’re going to need as many drugs, legal and otherwise, as we can get.
It is bad enough that these are the same people that run our medical schools. Sad but true!
In Mexico, their Social Security program caps the price of all pharmaceuticals. Of course, if the pharmaceutical companies pay off, the price will be increased.
Other than ads, what are they going to do with all that money, BUY votes?
Guess so.
Seems to me that there are some things that money just can’t buy — like the good will and common sense of the American people. I, for one, resent the drug company intervention, and I’ll bet others will, too, if they know about it.
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