Apparently
it is now the role of the Chief Executive to tell
businesspersons how to run their business.
In the context of the pro and con lobbying over the proposed expansion
of the State
Children’s Health Insurance Program, pharmaceutical
companies decided to join the pro side. After all, if more
children are insured, more of them will get prescription medication.
But is is not just the drug companies, it is a broad-spectrum
coalition:
According to the
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/09/washington/09child.html?ex=1341633600&en=f8f5eba22324ed32&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss">NYT:
The
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of
America, a trade group, has been running television and newspaper
advertisements that praise the program and urge Congress to renew it.
The television advertisements show children cavorting on a playground
and singing a jingle, “If you’re healthy and you
know it, clap your hands.”
The drug industry has joined four organizations in a coalition to whip
up support for the program. The coalition, Americans for
Children’s Health, was incorporated last month and has a
budget of several million dollars, mostly for advertising. Directors
include lobbyists from the American Health Care Association, which
represents nursing homes; the American Medical Association; Families
USA, a liberal-leaning nonprofit consumer group; and the Federation of
American Hospitals, which represents for-profit hospitals.
And the response of the Administration? ...
Bush
administration officials recently advised drug
company executives not to support a major expansion of the program.
How bizarre is that? If you were an industry leader, in an
industry that supported Bush's election and re-election, and he turned
around and told you to lobby against your own interest, what would you
think? That is exactly what has happened here.
There is even broad bipartisan support in the Senate, despite the fact
that Bush has threatened a veto. According to the
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/14/AR2007071401000.html">WaPo:
Republican
Sens. Charles
E. Grassley (Iowa) and
rel="tag">Orrin
G. Hatch (Utah), who helped broker the deal in the Senate
Finance
Committee, issued a joint statement last week calling Bush's tax code
proposals "not realistic" and urging the president not to veto the $35
billion package if it reaches his desk.
href="http://scienceblogs.com/scientificactivist/2007/07/bush_plans_to_veto_chip_expan.php">The
Scientific Activist has more detail. He actually
got more into the fiscal analysis that I will. My point is
that the Administration's stance of this is the apex of arrogance, in
addition to being bad policy.
If anything, I'm just amazed that this administration is able to so consistently one-up itself in its own lumbering machismo way.
Bush administration officials recently advised drug company executives not to support a major expansion of the program.
This administration does not believe that Bush is President. They believe that Bush is King.
Understatement. "They" know Bush is Supreme Major Generalissimo of The Universe, and that the constitution, which is "just another piece of paper", cannot apply to such absolute twitsrulers.
Sigh...
The "twitsrulers" was supposed to "<S>twits</S>rulers",
and (unless I'm blind) previewed correctly, but apparently the < was turned into a real < by the preview, and since the S tag is apparently not allowed, the result was a messed up comment…!
(I hope this one is Ok as I'm not going to preview it! ;-\ )
Bush administration officials recently advised drug company executives not to support a major expansion of the program.
You are following continual.Thanks for knowledges besides I m learning a new.Thank you.
This administration does not believe that Bush is President. They believe that Bush is King.
Bush administration officials recently advised drug company executives not to support a major expansion of the program.
I thought mine were pretty bad. Until I met somebody who was disabled by hers. Then mine were still pretty bad.
Bush administration officials recently advised drug company executives not to support a major expansion of the program.
for knowledges besides I m learning