While Reich seems most worried about the impact on our democracy of the government having secret-backroom deals with big business, I'm more worried about the impact of such deals - higher drug prices - which Reich also gets into:
When the industry support comes with an industry-sponsored ad campaign in favor of that legislation, the threat to democracy is even greater. Citizens end up paying for advertisements designed to persuade them that the legislation is in their interest. In this case, those payments come in the form of drug prices that will be higher than otherwise, stretching years into the future.
