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		Cost of Corruption :: High Prices for Prescription Drugs

"This was a drug bill written by and for lobbyists."
- Paul Krugman, The New York Times

Congress passsed a new Medicare law in 2003 that stopped the government from lowering the high prices of prescription drugs and hurt or confused millions of American seniors.

The new Medicare law is just one example of the culture of corruption in Washington.

Some key facts:

• Corruption: The corporations who profited hired 952 lobbyists and spent $544 million lobbying between 1997 and 2002.	• Corruption: Drug compainies will make $140 billion over the next eight years because of the new Medicare law.
• Corruption: The top Republican in Congress on Medicare negotiated a job with the pharmaceutical industry while he was writing the new law.	• Corruption: The government is forbidden from negotiating lower drug prices that will help all Americans.

Republican Dennis Rehberg received $135,117 from the companies profiting under the new Medicare law.

Call Republican Dennis Rehberg at 202-225-3211. Tell him to stop the culture of corruption in Washingtion and support real ethics reform with teeth.

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