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Obama Closes the Deal on the Sale of His Soul to Big PhARMA

December 9, 2009 at 1:57 PM Leave a comment

One Word:  Disgusting.  Another:  Betrayal.

Barack Obama campaigned on an explicit promise to support legislation allowing Americans to purchase lower-priced, FDA-approved prescription drugs from other countries. On the campaign, he rightly rejected the drug industry’s red herring argument that prescription drugs in places like Canada and Europe are unsafe.

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A proposal to enable the importation of cheaper prescription drugs could endanger the U.S. medicine supply and would be difficult to implement, the Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday… The Obama administration’s declaration on the eve of the vote could derail the amendment…

I’m vacillating between being furious and being really depressed.

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