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THE MEDICINE MEN
If you’re hoping for relief
in prescription prices and health care generally, don't hold your breath.
From the Washington Spectator we see the pharmaceutical industry
has bought the Bush Whitehouse:
"The
health care industry - if you wish to call it that - wants to redeem its
$18 million-plus contributions to the Bush campaign... it wants the Bush
Secretary of Health and Human services to rewrite, or maybe delete, the
privacy protection doctrine....
On
health issues - and others - the recent Wall Street Journal expose'
says that 'the ties between the new Bush administration and its business
run much deeper than money.' The newspaper found that top pharmaceutical
industry executives served as Bush transition team advisers on health
issues. In addition, Mitch Daniels, a former executive at the Lilly
pharmaceutical company is now director of the White House Office of
Management and Budget, which oversees budget and regulatory issues.
The
system has a stranglehold on democracy!
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