of people reviewing medications at the fda. they found that 60% of those reviewers who left the fda went on to work for the pharmaceutical companies. they said the lead researcher if you know in the back of your mind that your career goal may be to some they work at the other side of the table, i wonder whether that changes the way you regulate. yet. i wonder. perhaps, the most blatant example of the health swap revolving door is former louisiana congressman. in 2001-2004 he chaired the health energy and commerce committee which oversees the fda. during that time drug companies with health insurance between the nearly $1 million campaign. he was instrumental in pushing the modernization act of 2003 to the house. by doing so, he ensured that medicare cannot negotiate with drug manufacturers for lower prices. he also made sure that drugs manufactured here and exported to canada can t be imported back
we see the us and the former president trump so isolated from our traditional allies. is the us more isolated after? they are more isolated. president trump found himself a bit isolated. the us was isolated and friendless and he managed to isolate his nation s to alienate his allies. it leaves him somewhat isolated. steve: isolated on trade, immigration, climate change. how dare he go along to globalization s organizing committee and tell them to their face that he disagrees with them. that is simply not done. for 30 years no one has challenged the leaders consensus. open borders, cutting carbon emissions at any price, trade rules decided internationally, not by sovereign countries. that is the way the world works. in the present trump get the memo? no, he showed up with a
of people reviewing medications at the fda. they found that 60% of those reviewers who left the fda went on to work for the pharmaceutical companies. they said the lead researcher if you know in the back of your mind that your career goal may be to some they work at the other side of the table, i wonder whether that changes the way you regulate. yet. i wonder. perhaps, the most blatant example of the health swap revolving door is former louisiana congressman. in 2001-2004 he chaired the health energy and commerce committee which oversees the fda. during that time drug companies with health insurance between the nearly $1 million campaign. he was instrumental in pushing the modernization act of 2003 to the house. by doing so, he ensured that medicare cannot negotiate with drug manufacturers for lower prices. he also made sure that drugs manufactured here and exported to canada can t be imported back
worked out in advance. we are putting on the ballot is a chance to have america vote for a new congress and the way that they now vote for president there will be restraining and highly. i talk about this alternate reality with last year i think 90% of the incumbents were reelected but. stevewere alreadyliving in an ay where donald trump was elected. [inaudible conversations] steve: you written about our politics and the divisiveness and the idea that this is bringing people together from different parties around this populist agenda. i don t get practical. i work for a washington writers group and i don t live in
who better to become his chief help counsel? how convenient for the health swap to have one of their own people writing the obamacare legislation for them and how convenient for elizabeth fowler that after obamacare past she landed a job as head of global health policy at johnson & johnson one of the chief beneficiaries of president obama s signature legislation. these big pharma companies have deep pockets and 2016 the industry spends a massive $246 million in lobbying. the abuse of power doesn t stop there. big pharma has even corrupted clinical trials. clinical tires are supposed to be an objective scientific way of showing that new medicines are safe and effective except they are not objectives. it turns out many are ghost written by the pharmaceutical industry. they carry out their own test on their own drugs and then publish them under the names of top researchers in medical journals. researchers have nothing to do