Posted on 12/24/2009 6:06:25 AM PST by Def Conservative
The Pharmaceutical Researchers and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), is the largest single-industry lobbying group in America. It represents name-brand drug-makers. Considering this clout, and considering President Obama's claim Monday that the Senate, by passing the health-care bill, was "standing up to the special interests," it's noteworthy that PhRMA this morning celebrated the bill's passage.
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These idiots don't realize--their industry wasn't saved from destruction, its destruction was postponed for BO's political convenience.
PhARMA has another thing coming. Obama and the Dems do not give two sh#ts about this special “deal” now that they got the bill passed. It won’t be 6 months before they double cross the drug lobby and push for reimportation - David Axelrod has already said as much. They were simply useful idiots that they needed to not stand in the way of their bill. They’re gonna get screwed in short order - mark my words. How the people running these lobbies do not see this is beyond me.
That must be cuz they didn’t hear Axelrod last week say they are going to get a bill ALLOWING the reimportation of drugs to the U.S.
That was their “price” for support of the health care bill; that it wouldn’t include drug reimportation at lower prices. But they didn’t realize Obama would double cross them. True, it’s not in THE bill. It’s coming in a later bill that few dare vote against.
heh
As Dennis Praeger said yesterday, the AMA is to medicine what the NEA is to education.
The PhRMA is to medicine R&D what the NEA is to education.
Republicans have defended Big Pharma against Dim attacks on their profits for years, defending the need to spend and recover very high research costs through high drug prices in the US.
So, how do Republicans feel about Big Pharma today, while viewing their cozy deals with Obama?
Republicans need to get over this fantasy that business is their natural ally. Business is naturally concerned about its bottom line and little beyond that.
The drug companies think they are at the table. They will soon find that they are actually on the menu.
Agreed, and I work for one of them. I have been frustrated for years that they have no allegiance to this country and any notion of constitutional constraint. They think they can “play” these things like they did with Medicare Part D. Yeah, they have profited so far from that one, but if you keep dancing with the devil, before long you will find yourself betrayed.
Just wait until your local health nazi tells you what drugs you must take or ones you can’t have. This is all about control, and the big drug companies believe they can insist that people take their drugs, not just to treat an illness, but supposedly to prevent one. This will all be in the name of keeping us healthy so we don’t burden the system.
“This is all about control, and the big drug companies believe they can insist that people take their drugs, not just to treat an illness, but supposedly to prevent one. This will all be in the name of keeping us healthy so we don’t burden the system.”
Yes, but drugs will only accomplish so much in limiting morbidity and mortality. It won’t be long before they start saying, well your lifestyle has a bigger impact than drugs, so now we are going to dictate your lifestyle as well.
Yet another reason the far Left (Howard Dean) hate the Bill and won’t vote for it in the House.
Absolutely! You are so right. They will tell people what to eat, what to drink, how much they have to exercise, etc.
We have already fallen for this to a certain extent by the way we accept every safety rule and warning that the government issues. Part of this is the fault of ambulance chasing lawyers, but for the most part, we must blame ourselves for passively accepting the role of being Uncle Sam’s dependents.
I trace the beginning of the end to incident where the pony-tailed guy asked the presidential candidates about the federal government being daddy. Instead of ripping the guy a new one, then presidential candidate George H.W. Bush answered as if it were a legitimate question. I knew then that if the Republican candidate for president found nothing wrong with this idea, then we were indeed on a slippery slope to serfdom.
Of course they do, they intended to reap huge windfalls from this.....
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