Big Pharma Gets More

David Sirota has this excellent catch. So, if we've already signed a treaty & Big Pharma doesn't like it, well, just pressure the conservatives & voila, more money. I know it's French. Bugger off, if you know what I mean.

"The truth is, the drug industry spends massive amounts of money not only buying votes in Congress, but perhaps more importantly buying America's politicians into limiting the terms of the health care debate. Instead of a debate over regulating prices like every other industrialized nation on earth, we get a debate over how much taxpayer cash to throw at the pharmaceutical industry to subsidize its rip offs. Instead of a debate over patent abuses, we get a debates over how much R&D tax breaks to give the industry. In short, instead of a debate about whether this industry - the most profitable on the planet - should be allowed to profiteer off people's health needs, we get a debate about how best to further enrich drug companies."