Top administration officials cut backroom deals with the nation’s top drug companies to win support for President Obama’s health care overhaul, threatening them with steeper taxes if they resisted and promising a better financial deal for the industry if they acquiesced, according to internal documents released Thursday by House Republicans.
In some of the key deals, Mr. Obama agreed to drop his long-standing support for letting Americans buy cheaper foreign prescription drugs — something the pharmaceutical industry vehemently opposed — and the drugmakers promised to mount a public campaign to sell the public on the health care legislation.
The drug industry financed the famous “Harry and Louise” commercials in the early 1990s that many credit with helping to turn public opinion against President Clinton’s massive health care bill. In 2009, the industry revived the fictional married couple — this time with words of praise for Mr. Obama’s bill.
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Obummer came in to office with the strong arm Chicago style thug tactics to ram his Marxist agenda on America. Now his chickens have come home to roost. Many of these backers, highly influential companies and institutions are now ready to return the favor come election time.
Oh-bamma, Oh-bamma, hey hey, goodbye.
Oh-bamma, Oh-bamma, hey hey, goodbye.
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