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Truly a Poison Pill
May 11, 2007

Source: NW Progressive Institute
‘Well, once again the big drug companies have proved that they are the most powerful and best-financed lobby in Washington [DC].’ Sounds like a snippet from Randi Rhodes, maybe? Or that ultra-Liberal Thom Hartmann. Nope. That was from Republican Senator David Vitter of Louisiana, quoted in an AP article on May 8.

He’s referring to an amendment to a bill that would have allowed US consumers to buy prescription drugs from other countries, often at significantly lower costs. The amendment, in other words, effectively rendered the bill useless. Never a more poignant, vicious appropriateness for the political jargon, “poison pill amendment.” The bill, thus neutered, was defeated 49-40. And everybody took their payoffs and went home happy. Except, of course, the American healthcare consumers, who continue to be screwed by astronomical pharmaceutical costs.


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