Window dressing. You skipped the intro when you excerpted that:
“PhRMA remains committed to working with the Administration and Congress to help enact comprehensive health care reform this year. Our policy agreement with the White House and the Senate Finance Committee, which provides $80 billion in meaningful cost-savings over 10 years, clearly demonstrates that commitment. We share the same goal of helping ensure that all Americans have access to affordable, high-quality health care coverage and services.”
They are working WITH the administration to craft a plan that works for THEM. Further reality check here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/06/health/policy/06insure.html?ref=health
“Pressed by industry lobbyists, White House officials on Wednesday assured drug makers that the administration stood by a behind-the-scenes deal to block any Congressional effort to extract cost savings from them beyond an agreed-upon $80 billion. . . . But failing to publicly confirm Mr. Tauzin’s descriptions of the deal risked alienating a powerful industry ally currently helping to bankroll millions in television commercials in favor of Mr. Obama’s reforms.”
Trust me, the pharma industry lobbyists aren’t pouring millions into ads to sell the nation on Obamacare because they’re eager to be put out of business.
They are like all lobbiests
They are trying to insure they get less screwed by government regs etc etc
They are being blackmailed into supporting t the plan
Again SENIORS are the biggest consumers of drugs
Unless the Pharms are hoping the GOV requires everybody to do statins etc