PhRMA President and CEO Billy Tauzin, thank you, FRiend.
Sad FRegards ....
[Thank you, mo]
One Grand Deal Too Many Costs (pharma) Lobbyist (Billy Tauzin) His Job
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2450632/posts
Mr. Tauzin, 66, will retreat, to contemplate the apparent collapse of the grandest in a career of fearless deals — a pact to trade the drug industry’s political support for favorable terms under President Obama’s proposed health care overhaul.
Mr. Tauzin is leaving his $2 million-a-year job as the top lobbyist for the drug industry amid complaints from drug makers that he bargained away their profits too cheaply, spent too much in his $150 million advertising campaign to sell the overhaul and miscalculated in his assessment that the passage of the legislation was all but inevitable. [snip]