Cheering in the Streets for Unprecedented Feats
Obama, Democrats Cheer Announcement of Drug Savings for Federal Programs By Ceci Connolly Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, June 20, 2009 9:02 PM President Obama and Democratic lawmakers scouring for money to reduce the cost of comprehensive health-reform legislation cheered news today that drugmakers have agreed to squeeze $80 billion out of revenue over the next decade. . . . voluntarily trim prices . . . tangible example of the type of reform . . . requires every American to have health insurance, a change that would surely produce tens of millions of new customers for the industry . . .
____________________________________________________ Voluntarily give up $80 billion, huh? Does that give you a measure of what they are actually afraid will be required? Ah yes, there's dancing in the streets because we are now (or are promised to be) merely prisoners of the pharmaceutical industry, instead of tortured by them. The torture was enabled in 2006, when a Re…