Thursday, August 06, 2009

Durbin Says Congress Can Require More Drug Savings


Photo courtesy of Jef Costello


Bloomberg reports:
The Obama administration told Democratic senators that its agreement with drugmakers doesn’t bar Congress from requiring the industry to absorb further cuts in government spending on drugs, Senator Dick Durbin said.

White House aide David Axelrod told the senators “as far as he is concerned there is no deal” requiring the administration to protect drugmakers from further spending cuts as part of a U.S. health-care overhaul, Durbin said. He spoke during an interview taped for Bloomberg Television’s “Political Capital With Al Hunt.”
The men of medicine, from the corrupt state of Illinois.