According to press reports Tuesday, the drug industry lobby PhRMA will launch a $150 million advertising blitz in support of Obama's healthcare reform drive, after the White House reaffirmed its promise that it will limit the industry's "contribution" to the cost of healthcare restructuring to the $80 billion agreed on in closed-door talks between Obama aides and PhRMA chief Billy Tauzin (a founding member of the "Blue Dogs" before he left Congress to become an open rather than concealed representative of the drug manufacturers).
Obama has repeatedly avowed his support for capitalist medicine, and the "right" of drug companies, the insurance companies, the medical equipment manufacturers, and a host of other parasites to profit from the sick. His differences with his Republican opponents are purely tactical, and largely concern which sections of corporate America will benefit the most from the current legislative undertaking.
Nothing that emerges from the machinations of big business politicians and corporate lobbyists in Washington can serve the needs of working people. Medical care must be made available to every American citizen and resident, provided for at state expense as a basic human right. This requires the nationalization of the insurance companies, the drug companies, and all the other healthcare profiteers, and the establishment of a system of socialized medicine provided free to all who need it.
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