Saturday, January 17, 2009

Pharmacuetical Companies' lobby Washington

This is nothing new. But you might not know it. I didn't. Page 198, of Dr. Angell's book, THE TRUTH ABOUT DRUG COMPANIES, first sentence, first paragraph reads: "The pharmaceutical industry hss by far the largest lobby in Washington--and that's saying something." She adds, "In 2002, it employed 675 lobbyists (more than one for each member of Congress)--many drawn from 138 Washington lobbying firms--at a cost of over 91 million.

And you wonder why your pharmaceuticals are priced so high?

And you presume your congressman isn't influenced by all this money and verbiage?

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