The background on this item is from Time's Swampland Blog -- but PhRMA President Tauzin likely just did his own cause a fair bit of damage -- here attempting to demagogue -- in an e-mail the AP has obtained:
. . . .Mr. Waxman is pushing hard, with the support of the President, to drop our 12-year FOB period down. We are all letting everyone we know hear that we could not support the bill if this happens. Please activate immediately all of your contacts.
-- /s/ Billy. . . .
So the deal wasn't sweet enough for ya', Billy?
It would all be rather droll, if such wanna-be chicanery didn't put the improvement of Americans' health care options in renewed peril.
