November 27, 2006
Phunny Pharm(a)
PinkLady has a great post up about the pharmaceutical industry's efforts to persuade the new Democratic majority in Congress not to beat it to a bloody pulp. I kid. All the Democrats want to do is get the industry to play fair and allow the government to negotiate for the best prices for medicines (instead of the corporate welfare system we have in place now).
Of course to the industry it feels like someone is taking a lead pipe to their heads. Get used to it, fuck-o's. You've abused the people of this country long enough.
Of course, there are even those in Congress (Dingell) who actually believe that bullshit about how much big pharma spends on R&D (the only R&D they spend a lot on is how to 'entertain' doctors... if you ever have a chance to befriend a pharma sales rep, take it). The line goes that while production of medicines is, for the most part, cheap, the first pill is incredibly expensive.
It's also bullshit.
A word of advice to Democrats in Congress... play hardball with these fuckers. Put price negotiation into the law and tell the industry if they don't like it and want to offshore, you'll rewrite the patent laws. You really want to put the fear of God into the pharmaceutical industry? Tell them you're going to remove their IP protections.
Posted by mcblogger at November 27, 2006 12:03 PM
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