Posted on 08/11/2009 12:52:35 PM PDT by Steelfish
A Backroom Drug Deal
Obama’s turnabout on insider dealings.
By Rich Lowry
The White House has yet to entice any members of the Axis of Evil to the negotiating table, unless Billy Tauzin counts. The former Louisiana congressman doesn’t head a rogue state, but PhRMA, the drug-industry trade group whose name is itself a swear word for liberal Democrats.
Tauzin cut a deal with the White House that is keeping PhRMA out of its customary place in the pantheon of Democratic hate groups — for now.
Pres. Barack Obama goes out of his way to praise the drug industry. Tauzin has visited the White House half a dozen times and has committed to a $150 million advertising campaign on behalf of Obamacare.
He’s become the “good German” of the health-care debate — that is, the good $2 million-a-year drug-industry lobbyist.
Tauzin agreed to pass along $80 billion in savings over ten years. It wasn’t clear what exactly PhRMA had gotten in return until congressional Democrats began to run afoul of the unacknowledged provisions of the deal.
It turns out the White House had committed not to not to do three things: impose more than $80 billion in savings, have the government set prices in the Medicare prescription-drug program, and import cheaper drugs from Canada.
(Excerpt) Read more at article.nationalreview.com ...
See this story I posted esterday that was on CBS. Please view the video.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2313062/posts
I’m gonna LMAO when PhrMA gets done spending $150 million pushing Obamacare and in the end gets stabbed in the back.
Just when it seemed I had almost gotten over the shock of realizing how strongly BIG MONEY talks in Washington ie: The bank bailout, along comes this smelly tidbit to refresh my memory.
Washington is just one big cesspool.
that’s a good article, until the end,
“Even if the deal holds, PhRMA will be at the mercy of a government system that will tend to squeeze out even those private players who have obligingly assisted in creating the predicate for their own destruction.”
Who is stupider, liberal nuts or business cultists who call themselves “conservative?” On the one hand, we have liberals thinking they are going to get some kind of health plan absent the inefficiencies of exec bonus pay, high salaries, and shareholder earnings. On the other we have business cultists who believe large companies have our best interests at heart and are being coerced here into something they do not want and Obama will trick them for the good of the people in the end.
“It will all be different when 0bama gets to Washington!” - dreamy eyed liberal
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