On This Date in Bush History-11/25: Taxpayers Robbed
2003: The Senate approves President Bush’s drug plan for seniors today. The law pleases big pharma. It blocks the importation of cheaper drugs from Canada; Mr. Bush doesn't want the nation's elderly to get the same bargains that Canadians get. The law also forbids the US from negotiating bulk purchase drug prices; a great deal for drug companys, and a lousy deal for taxpayers.
Ideally, in a bill like this, you would have the drug companies looking out for their interests, and the government representing the public. When you have both the drug companies and the president looking out for what is best for the drug companies, you know who pays the price.
Drug price negotiations are the rule in other countries that help citizens pay for drugs; in the U.S, the VA negotiates prices for the medicines it buys for veterans. Who doesn’t try to get the best deal they can when they buy something? Well, almost everyone does, except the U.S. government, PROHIBITED BY LAW from doing so. Bush has come up with another gift that could continue to keep on giving and giving and giving (to big pharma that is), long after he is out of office.
"It would be a mistake for the United States Senate to allow any kind of human cloning to come out of that chamber." President Bush, April 10th 2002
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