Michael Kinsley on Vioxx
“Foreigners look with amazement at a society that gives Carol Ernst $16 million or so in trade for her 59-year-old husband — more than he’s worth to anyone else and yet almost insultingly inadequate to her — gives tens of millions each to a few lawyers like Mark Lanier, and is about to institute a transparently phony plan to provide prescription drugs that do work to people who need them, with no money to pay for it.” (via PointofLaw.com)
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