Obama: Big Pharma's Sugar Daddy?

[pulsedrop]

is this all true? damn i thought obama's health reform would make US health care more like Canada's. guess not...

[nasaguy]

This is the granddaddy whopper of them all. Obama wants to stand up and pretend to be fighting "for the little guy" against big business because it makes for great press, when in fact some of them SUPPORT him. Business and gov't support each other, but it's in the interest of each to downplay and deny it. This is an ENORMOUS and extremely damaging lie.

[infinitecharms]

Oh and by the way, Bush is the one that wouldn't let people go over the border into Canada to get their prescriptions. Remember the debate with Kerry where that was brought up. Bush said we shouldn't be able to go to Canada to get our drugs because we don't know what we are getting. Canada is not a 3rd world country so I don't know what Bush was thinking.

[infinitecharms]

What about Bush and his republican buddies? What the heck did they do about health care? Nothing. The republicans think everything is fine as long as the rich can pay their medical bills. Who cares about the middle class or poor who can't pay for their medical bills. At least Obama is trying but the republican's block everything he tries to do.

[soundsoftheparadigm]

Obama is keeping regulations on pharm companies the same regarding production. So many companies are already LOSING money on new drugs. It costs on avg. a billion to get a new drug out from start to finish. So many have not netted nearly that much. So of course they are going to favor not being taxed and gutted on the reform. If you want to keep getting new therapeutic drugs that make a difference in people's quality of life, leave pharma alone stupid pap attack.

[Skeezyhouse]

i'm not even a repulican, in fact i lean left 80% of the time. but i'm not so blinded i don't know when i'm being duped. obama has already broken many of his important promises...lobbyist revolving door, leaving iraq and afghanistan, under regulated gm bailouts that screwed retirees and sent jobs overseas, and now backing down on his health care plan.  haven't heard anything about college rebates. seriously, this is not going well.

[pilottim79]

Keep apologizing for Obama, soon we will have more debt that we can even calculate and an socialist economy that has no way of paying our way out of it.

God help us.

[Textynn]

This is messed up.

[mancrushonhanksnow]

Obama is just another cowardly blue-dog Democrat, just as greedy as the other "liberals" in government. There are no liberals in our government. In the words of Bill Maher, we've got one party that's center-right and another that's just insane.

[mapleloaf67]

politician =puppet of big business

[buakawkaoklai]

oh yeah...blame obama for the instituitionalized system that preceeds him...and has been in place for years...change something today...tomorrow is another battle

[grEzyRyd3r]

Quit making excuses for the man in charge and speak to the issue.

[buakawkaoklai]

ppl didnt demand the same from gw bush...its hard to dismantle the ways of washingthton...in the military, healthcare,media cause there a lot of money involved...

[grEzyRyd3r]

Obama is not trying to dismantle the ways of Washington. He's left that up to his cronies from Goldmans Sachs and his various other corporate donors.

[buakawkaoklai]

dude i rather have obama that somebody like bush...everybody is expecting obama to do everything...get a grip...to make change ppl need to the street...like long time ago ...in the civil rights times...silence will not help you...go to the streets and demand what is yours...dont pray and expect jesus on your door step..get up and do something

[imaginepeace63]

I knew Obama's public option is a illusion.