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PhRMA’s Big Bribe Comes In

Posted by smeddum on September 15, 2009

Sep. 14 2009
Matt Taibbi
Matt Taibbi’s Blog at Trueslant

The drug industry’s trade group plans to roll out a series of television advertisements in coming weeks specifically to support Senator Max Baucus’s health care overhaul proposal, according to an industry official involved in the planning.

via Drug Makers to Back Baucus Plan With Ad Dollars – Prescriptions Blog – NYTimes.com.

I’ve been completely out of the loop with the health care story these last week and half or so, out of touch actually with the entire earth (I’ve been on a deadline on another story), but upon returning to work today I began getting calls about some alarming maneuverings in congress. We’re apparently finally seeing delivery of the Big Bribe that President Obama and Rahm Emanuel extracted from that pharmaceutical industry in exchange for dropping drug-pricing reform in the health care bill. Read the rest of this entry »

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How Washington is Screwing Up Health Care Reform – and Why It May Take a Revolt to Fix It

Posted by smeddum on September 8, 2009

Sick and Wrong

How Washington is Screwing Up Health Care Reform – and Why It May Take a Revolt to Fix It

By Matt Taibbi

September 07, 2009

Rolling Stone

— Let’s start with the obvious: America has not only the worst but the dumbest health care system in the developed world. It’s become a black leprosy eating away at the American experiment – a bureaucracy so insipid and mean and illogical that even our darkest criminal minds wouldn’t be equal to dreaming it up on purpose. Read the rest of this entry »

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