Obama’s Deals with Drug Makers Breaks Promise
In cutting deals with hospitals and drug makers, President Barack Obama is giving a private inside track to special interests that’s at odds with his promise to make policy in the open.
Obama promised Americans he would hold special interests at arm’s length _ that it would no longer be business as usual in Washington. He pledged to open government and let the public and press hold his administration accountable.
And just over two months before the 2008 election, Obama promised before an audience in Chester, Va., to hash out a health care overhaul in public. “We’ll have the negotiations televised on C-SPAN, so that people can see who is making arguments on behalf of their constituents, and who are making arguments on behalf of the drug companies or the insurance companies,” he said then.
That didn’t happen.
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