A Rancid Deal with Big Pharma

By one of my long time favorite writers, William Greider, who writes for The Nation & Rolling Stone Magazines among others. Obama has sold out and it is so disappointing.

So now we know why the president wants everyone to make nice in the healthcare debate. His White House has cut a deal with Big Pharma that smells like the same old rotten politics that candidate Obama regularly denounced and promised to end. The drug industry agrees to deliver $80 billion in future savings and the president promises the government will not use its awesome purchasing power to negotiate lower drug prices. Read it here.