Big Pharma versus Everybody

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" Big Pharma " versus Everybody...

 

Opinion by Consumer Advocate Tim Bolen

 

Thursday, July 14th, 2005

 

A seven-thousand-five-hundred-dollar hand tailored business suit. A

fifteen-hundred-dollar designer tie. A four-hundred-fifty-dollar belt.

Twenty-five-hundred dollar hand-made shoes. Three-hundred-fifty-dollar

hand-made silk underwear. And, a twenty-five-thousand dollar hand-made

watch.

 

Who's wearing this? Every one of the roughly seven thousand lobbyists

working for " Big Pharma " trying to get laws, and treaties, favorable to

their aims, through the US Congress. They dress like this for two reasons:

 

(1) with the money " Big Pharma " is paying them they can afford to, and

(2) they want to make " the right impression. "

 

Their current project is to get CAFTA (the Central American Free Trade

Agreement) passed. It's important to them - and they've pulled out all

of the stops.

 

Despite all the money, they are not winning. Although the " health

freedom " movement had a temporary setback with the loss of the " Codex "

battle in Rome, July 4th, 2005, we won a MUCH larger battle in the

European Court of Justice.

 

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http://www.quackpotwatch.org/opinionpieces/big%20pharma%20versus%20Everybody.htm