If he were a Republican and doing the same thing, party kingmakers would have him advising George W. Bush. He would be hailed as a hero and have his name mentioned in the latest leak on the vice presidency. Squeeze play Even if Dorgan is right and Zeneca is soaking American farmers, I would advise the company to keep raising the price on weed killer until the solon from the boondocks releases McCabe's nomination. No company, even if it does sell overpriced drugs, should have to negotiate with a hostage taker. All this causes me to wonder why no member of the House or Senate is taking a CEO of a drug company hostage to put the lid on ever-rising prescription prices.
Price fixing goes on every day in our free market economy.
There really is evidence that some older Americans are using food money to pay for costly prescriptions or not taking their medicines at all. Can't worry about that when you're devising new schemes to hand over the federal surplus to taxpayers who don't need it. One Republican solution to the drug problem is to give people matching funds to pay for prescription plans, further enriching the health care industry. I suspect that idea was cooked up by the genius responsible for letting older Americans and the disabled use Medicare money to join HMOs. If you don't blink, you might see the HMOs abandoning them in droves after discovering the scheme was not profitable enough.