PhRMA is lobbying with the Dems for healthcare?
I don't know what to make of this.
According to this AP piece, PhRMA, the drug industry umbrella lobbying group, is expected to spend $150 million in advertising working with Obama and the Dems to get a healthcare plan passed.
Assuming this is literal and exactly as reported, maybe the drug makers see expanded health coverage as a huge boon for them? 50 million more people taking their drugs?
Strange bedfellows....
According to this AP piece, PhRMA, the drug industry umbrella lobbying group, is expected to spend $150 million in advertising working with Obama and the Dems to get a healthcare plan passed.
Assuming this is literal and exactly as reported, maybe the drug makers see expanded health coverage as a huge boon for them? 50 million more people taking their drugs?
Strange bedfellows....
posted by mikevotes at
6:07 AM
5 Comments:
I'm not surprised at all. "Follow the money" is usually a good rule in politics. Who wins if this bill passes? Drug makers and health insurers, both of whom will get millions of new and more free-spending customers.
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Patrick, at 9:00 AM
but drugmakers more than insurers. They're making no concessions and they're going to to get all benefit.
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mikevotes, at 11:37 AM
maybe controversial research projects would be in a better position to receive more funding later on?
By
rockyroad, at 1:02 PM
That's a good thought.
Plus, healthcare probably means drugs over treatments in alot of cases. Psychological, therapies, etc.
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mikevotes, at 2:22 PM
I don't trust a corporate entity any further than I can throw it. Heard this re: Big Pharma read verbatim on a radio doctor's Sunday show:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-maher/new-rule-not-everything-i_b_244050.html
By
r8r, at 7:06 PM
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