I have no fucking clue why Obama ever thought that Big Pharmaceutical companies might be willing to negotiate in good faith.
They've never ever been on the side of the American consumer and while Obama carried quite a bit of political leverage with him (an 8 million vote winning margin in the Presidential election) into the White House, I believe he miscalculated horribly in thinking that that leverage could be used to arm-twist a greedy industry into doing the right thing for America and Americans by passing off some of their perennially obscene profits to the consumers in dire need of price relief at the pharmacy counter.
Bone headed strategy to say the least.
Anyhow -- Obama gets a slap upside the head from me for this boondoggle of a mistake.
I'm quite certain that in this particular instance, Obama was Charlie Brown to Big Pharma's Lucy. Yep -- quite sure.
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