“Quite common, this revolving door.”
An old-school newspaper columnist, Drew Pearson, titled his column “The Washington Merry-Go-Round”. This news of FDA to BIG PHARMA for the well-placed is just another paragraph in this epic story.
Congressman Billy Tauzin of Louisiana chaired the committee that developed the 2003 legislation that banned HHS from negotiating drug prices for Medicare/Medicaid.
For his services to Big Pharma that cost US taxpayers untold billions, he left his House seat to lead the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America lobbying group. I forgot his salary, but assume it was enormous.