Originally posted by: RustyTruck
If you're a politician that is.
Big Pharma needs some favors...
For decades, the drug industry has yelled bloody murder each time Congress considered a regulatory measure that threatened its profits. But the hyperbole reached a new pitch in recent weeks as the Senate moved to adopt modest drug pricing negotiation measures in the Inflation Reduction Act.
The bill "could propel us light-years back into the dark ages of biomedical research," Dr. Michelle McMurry-Heath, president of the Biotechnology Innovation Organization, said last month. Venture capitalists and other opponents of the bill said that it "immediately will halt private funding of drug discovery and development."
Steve Ubl, leader of the ubiquitous Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, or PhRMA, called the bill's Senate passage on Aug. 7 a "tragic loss for patients." He threatened in an interview with Politico to make politicians suffer if they voted for the measure, adding that "few associations have all the tools of modern political advocacy at their disposal in the way that PhRMA does."
Politicians should suffer for that supreme idiocy. The people will, so let them have a taste.
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