Posted on 06/10/2012 8:53:59 PM PDT by george76
A new trove of emails shows President Barack Obama’s White House agreed to help drug companies block a proposal to bring down medicine prices so they would back Obama’s healthcare plan.
House Republicans obtained the three-year-old correspondence between the Obama administration and representatives of the drug industry and released more of them to the public on Friday...
The exchanges show the compromises as they were being negotiated that laid the groundwork for the health care law now awaiting the judgment of the Supreme Court.
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White House officials had “made decision, based on how constructive you guys have been, to oppose importation” on a different proposal.
In the end, the drug industry agreed to provide $80 billion to expand health coverage in exchange for protection from policies that would cost more
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
The most corrupt government I can remember.
My first thought, NYT dissing Bammy, WTH is this.
So why did Republicans release this on a Friday news dump day.
Seems they are in on the ‘colluding’ as well?
Seems they are in on the ‘colluding’ as well?
Yes a bit odd, other than the Repubs have been against re-importation of Drugs as well. just for different reasons
Did anyone on this board not know this 2 or 3 years ago? Collusion is necessary to pass such irresponsible legislation.
Blagoyevich contends that things went south for him when he took on big pharma in Illinois and began looking for ways to bring down prescription costs.
How come all this didn’t come out in those public hearings on Obamacare on CSPAN —the ones Obama promised during his campaign
Wait you say they never happened
But But he promised
Why the hell the GOP never jumped all over that still irks the hell out of me
I don’t know...my first thought was that if the Obamacare is foisted on us, the low-cost generic drugs that are made in countries like Jordan, China, India, Canada, and who knows where else, will be what we are forced to have.
I found out that my thyroid medication came from Jordan, so I make sure I get non-generic, made in USA, right now in Bristol, TN (or if not available, made in Canada). It costs more, but I don’t care. We may soon not have a choice, will have to go generic and not know where our drugs are coming from, just like a lot of our food now.
As far as the psychotic drugs and all the new stuff for bi-polar disease, etc., they will continue to rise in costs and necessitate government “help” (control).
It’s pharmacy employees and shareholders who got screwed .
this is news??? all and i mean all the bigHealth care companies were involved in helping to write Obamacare..
Bump
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