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Magician Politics

Albert127 Wrote: Jul 25, 2009 10:35 PM
The other countries put a gun to the pharmaceutical companies by threatening to allow a cheap illegal generic to be produced in their country unless they get the pricing they want.

Foreign countries also mandate a certain amount of business activity in their country by a company in order to get their approval and pricing.

It is the threat of stealing intellectual property that produces cheaper drug prices.

Distracting the audience's attention is one of the ways magicians pull off some of their tricks. President Barack Obama's televised news conference on medical care shows that he is something of a magician when it comes to politics.

The big trick for the president is to convince the public that he can add tens of millions of people to his government medical care plan without raising the costs. But an analysis by the Congressional Budget Office showed that Obamacare would in fact raise the costs and increase the deficit by billions of dollars.

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