I just read in “Investor’s Business Daily” two things that just set me off.
The first was an item about the Republicans blocking the Democrats’ bid to let the government use its vast power to negotiate directly with drug companies to cut prices for the new Medicare drug benefit program.
The vote was 55 to 42, five shy of the sixty votes needed to end the Repubs filibuster.
The Democrats accused them of shilling for the pharmaceutical companies and the Republicans countered saying the bill would impose de facto price controls on a program that was working well. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said ”Senate Republicans have resorted to obstructionism in an effort to protect the drug industry at the expense of our seniors.”
The Republicans said the currant competition-based program already delivers low prices. “It is as simple as, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” said Senator Charles Grassley , R-Iowa.
I say that it is as simple as profit over lives.
The second item was about health care for everyone. The sub-headline states “A little piece of news out of Connecticut shows us that the resistance to universal coverage needs to be ratcheted higher. Free access to medical care for everyone is an economy-killer”.
The article states that avid proponents of universal care are statists and socialists at heart and they wouldn’t mind if the health care burden placed on taxpayers wrecked the economy.
Again it seems to be profit over lives.
The California Curmudgeon
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