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To: i-node who wrote (467031)	3/28/2009 2:15:34 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575538

True, but the point is, each individual provider can't POSSIBLY exert the leverage the ENTIRE Medicare system could on the Pharma corps. This bill was a PAYBACK to big Pharma from Bush and Billy Tauzin, it's advocate, just before he "retired" and WENT TO WORK FOR BIG PHARMA, for MILLIONS of dollars. The (R)'s are total WHORES. You want to know WHY you're losing elections? Ask Billy. en.wikipedia.org "... January 3, 2005, the same day he left Congress, Tauzin began work as the head of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, or PhRMA, a powerful trade group for pharmaceutical companies. It was reported that they had offered more than $2.5 million per year for his services, outbidding the Motion Picture Association of America, which had offered Tauzin $1 million to lobby for it.[1] Two months earlier, Tauzin had played a key role in shepherding the Medicare Prescription Drug Bill through Congress, which had been criticized by opponents for being too generous to the pharmaceutical industry."