What Conservatives worry about is extending socialism to "the people". Want to reserve it for big folks, like farms, defense contractors, oil companies and pharmaceutical manufacturers. Conservatives, contrary to the hollaring they do, love socialism.

White House threatens veto of drug price bill. Unclear if support's there for a Senate vote later this week."

All this would do is enable Medicare to negotiate prices for drugs. It would enable the heart of the free enterprise system to operate.

And Bush doesn't like that in the case of large corporations.

In the first place the vast majority of research done on these drugs is financed through the NIH. That's Uncle Sam, that's the taxpayer. Us. You and me.

Drug companies then license them from universities and charge the government whatever they want for the government-funded drugs.

Silly, but Sound Conservative Philosophy.

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