Posted on 08/15/2009 12:51:38 PM PDT by Starman417
Deputy Assistant Under-Minister of Truth Linda Douglass tried her best to dodge the questions from Wolf Blitzer regarding the 150 million dollars PhARMA is agreeing to pay for advertising to support ObamaCare socialism:
BLITZER: Did PhRMA, in exchange, make a promise of $150 million to pay for advertising to help the president's plan go forward?DOUGLASS: What -- what you have, Wolf, is this deal that is $80 billion. And we are very pleased, obviously, that -- that the pharmaceutical industry agrees with us, that there's an urgent need for comprehensive health insurance reform that's going to protect Americans from unfair rules, from rising costs. They agree with that. They've agreed with it from the beginning. That's why they came to us and we worked out this agreement with the pharmaceutical industry. And they're supporting health reform legislation. And that is good for the country.
BLITZER: So is part of the deal that they would support this legislation, go forward with $150 million in advertising?
DOUGLASS: You know, Wolf, part of the agreement here is that we're all going to work together to bring comprehensive health reform. I mean, clearly, the pharmaceutical industry said we are going to support comprehensive health reform. And that's what they're doing.
Which is a yes.
150 million dollars....more then McCain spent for his White House bid.....from an industry that not too long ago was vilified by Obama and the left.
And why would PhARMA make this kind of deal with Obama? Why, to stop the Socialism. Yeah, you heard me right:
Ken Johnson, adviser to Billy Tauzin (PhRAMAs chief lobbyist), and the senior vice-president for PhARMA, said this to NRO on Friday:
What were trying to do is move the debate closer to the center. That said, we need health-care reform but should not sacrifice medical progress or set us on a path towards a single-payer health-care system.
So, they will spend millions to get ObamaCare pushed through that will most definitely lead to a single-payer system....all to stop single-payer system?
The Wall Street Journal has long advocated free-market principles [and argued] that we have started down that slippery slope towards a single-payer system. Our argument is that were heading that way anyway, if we dont work to rein in health-care costs.
Whoakay....
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net ...
Neither Ms. Douglass nor Wolfy have access to the innermost memos among the CEOs of drug cos. That fact of the matter is that the drug cos (and most other cos) hedge their outcomes by supporting both sides of this grand debate. Noise.
Johnson & Johnson is the sole supplier to two single-payer systems-China and Russia — at least it was as of a few annual reports ago. J&J supports single payer here because it streamlines things, they don’t have to compete.
Big Rx was at the top of Hillary’s old HC list. Rebates, promos, giveaways, hyper-extended patents were right in her sights. The industry has cleaned up since then some, but I think they’ll find that they wasted their money on Obama.
He’s great at getting starry eyed execs to hand over massive wads of cash, and then turning on or ignoring them. This is a clear pattern in his career.
Good read at your link: ...HR 3200 is complexity for complexitys sake. When one parses out all the legalese, cross-references, and unnecessarily tortuous syntax, one is often (if not in each and every case) left with nothing concrete. To a great extent, the meanings of large sections of HR 3200 are not merely difficult to ascertain, but are fundamentally indeterminate. It has no definite meaning. It is designed for ambiguity.
This is legislation designed to create a legal framework under which huge cadres of unelected, politically-appointed policy mavens and bureaucrats will determine - by publishing hundreds of thousands of pages of regulations, rules, and guidelines - what our new healthcare system will look like. And until those regulations and guidelines are actually created - and this creation will be a never-ending process rather than an act - anybody claiming to know the precise nature of our new healthcare system under HR 3200 is engaging in one of the following: lying, projecting ones own wishful thinking, or extrapolating on the perceived behaviors and beliefs of those who (one surmises) will finally get to make up all the rules.
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