From ip-health: "Pharma had 1,814 flacks at work last year and 1,309 in the first 3 months of this year. That’s 12 percent of all the lobbyists in Washington. Last year alone the drug industry spent $234 million on lobbying. In the first three months of this year, it spent more than $66.5 million$1.2 million a day. ... "Big Pharma’s generous “concession” starts to look like nothing more or less than a pitch to keep people taking expensive brand name drugs, and keep the governmentand the taxpayersfunding them." <http://ampedstatus.com/congress-12-million-a-day-drug-habit-and-pharmas-phony-gift-to-health-care-reform>http://ampedstatus.com/congress-12-million-a-day-drug-habit-and-pharmas-phony-gift-to-health-care-reform www.peoplewho.org