A little over a month ago, Common Cause released a study called "Democracy on Drugs - The Medicare/Prescription Drug Bill: A study in How Government Shouldn't Work."
It lays out how the bill's supporters used bribery, delayed votes, improper lobbying, withholding of information about costs, blocking of members of the conference committee from attending sessions, and a multimillion dollar ad campaign designed by the White House (including the creation of phony "news" items) to gain passage. And then there's also the fact that a main sponsor of the bill was simultaneously negotiating a $2 million job offer from the drug industry.
You may well have head all this before at some time, but seeing it all laid out in one place is kind of chilling.
The report, in .pdf format, is here.
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