{"id":189798,"date":"2010-02-12T20:43:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-13T01:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/02\/12\/dont-let-the-door-hit-your-ass-on-the-way-out-billy-boy\/"},"modified":"2010-02-12T20:43:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-13T01:43:00","slug":"dont-let-the-door-hit-your-ass-on-the-way-out-billy-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/02\/12\/dont-let-the-door-hit-your-ass-on-the-way-out-billy-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Let the Door Hit Your Ass on the Way Out, Billy Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So PhRMA (the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America) has just <a href=\"http:\/\/thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/11\/health-reform-in-limbo-top-drug-lobbyist-quits\/\">fired<sup>*<\/sup> Billy Tauzin<\/a>, because the deal that he cut with the Obama administration, basically a few penniess in promised savings so as to forestall price controls and drug reimportation.<\/p>\n<p>Now that the healthcare plan is in shambles, it&#8217;s likely that stuff will be passed piecemeal, and high on that list will be drug reimportation.<\/p>\n<p>Tauzin got his $2 million a year job because he pushed through the Medicare drug benefit, which was basically sloppy anilingus to PhRMA, and the gig was his payoff.<\/p>\n<p>Couldn&#8217;t happen to a more evil piece of sh%$.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">Yes, I know that the story says that a, &#8220;friend of Mr. Tauzin, speaking on condition of anonymity,&#8221; says that he is, &#8220;leaving the trade group job voluntarily to pursue other activities,&#8221; but seriously, don&#8217;t take us for idiots.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So PhRMA (the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America) has just fired* Billy Tauzin, because the deal that he cut with the Obama administration, basically a few penniess in promised savings so as to forestall price controls and drug reimportation. Now that the healthcare plan is in shambles, it&#8217;s likely that stuff will be passed &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1046,1020,1019],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-healthcare","category-legislation","category-schadenfreude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189798"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}