Hey, the White House finally woke up. It seems their friends in Big Pharma almost had something included in the bill that they didn't like. So the White House is working with a Democratic Senator to shut down the entire Senate debate on the bill until the offending amendment, that Big Pharma doesn't like, is killed. From Ryan Grimm at Huffington Post.
The White House, aided by Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), is working hard to crush an amendment being pushed by Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) to allow for the reimportation of pharmaceutical drugs from Canada, Senate sources tell the Huffington Post.So the White House is finally getting engaged, but only in an effort to ensure that you pay three to five times more for your prescription drugs, because the big pharmaceutical companies' monstrous profits are more important to this administration than the health and financial welfare of you and your family. This is something George Bush's White House would do. It's something that Barack Obama railed against during his run for the presidency. And now he's doing the same thing.
As a result, the Senate health care debate has come to a standstill: Carper has placed a "hold" on Dorgan's amendment and in response, Dorgan tells HuffPost, he'll object to any other amendments being considered before he gets a vote on his.
And don't miss how the Democrats snuck a nasty provision into the Senate health care "compromise" that will let insurance companies kick you off if you get cancer or any other catastrophic illness.
