Posted on 03/22/2010 6:58:30 AM PDT by ICAB9USA
From Tim Carneys article in the Washington Examiner, Dems tap drug maker millions for PhRMA-friendly bill:
Of all the single-industry lobbies in Washington, the largest is the Pharmaceutical Researchers and Manufacturers of America. PhRMA spent $26.2 million on lobbying last year thats nearly three times as much as the insurance lobby, Americas Health Insurance Plans, which spent $8.9 million.
If you include individual companies lobbying, pharmaceuticals blow away the competition, beating all other industries by 50 percent, according to data at the Center for Responsive Politics.
Given this Big Pharma clout, its unsurprising that the bill Obamas whipping for Senate bill has nearly everything the drug companies wanted: prohibiting reimportation of drugs, preserving Medicares overpayment for drugs, lengthy exclusivity for biotech drugs, a mandate that states subsidize drugs under Medicaid, hundreds of billions in subsidies for drugs, and more.
Read the whole article:
(Excerpt) Read more at patientpowernow.org ...
Given this Big Pharma clout, its unsurprising that the bill Obamas whipping for Senate bill has nearly everything the drug companies wanted.
All of them
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Thanks so much for that great link. I read recently about oil of oregano and its powerful antibiotic properties.
Research just went out the window.
Very
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