Time for veto number 2?

WASHINGTON - — President Bush promised on Thursday to veto Democratic-drafted legislation requiring the government to negotiate with drug companies for lower prices under Medicare.
“Government interference impedes competition, limits access to lifesaving drugs, reduces convenience for beneficiaries and ultimately increases costs to taxpayers, beneficiaries and all American citizens alike,” the administration said in a written statement.

Which means that under no circumstances will the Bush administration ever be on record as favoring anything that will benefit the poor or middle class.
Having the ability to negotiate prices is something that is for Socialist commie fags. The free market means that the seller can set the price and since it is a government program there needs to be no accountability. Just like the no-bid contracts to Halliburton, KBR etc. Just like the closed door meetings with the oil company executives to set energy policy.

He needs to go to federal (pound-me-in-the-ass) prison.

How is it that having the ability to negotiate prices "reduces access" to drugs? It just means that a price is not arbitrary. It is negotiated.

When you have a roof replaced and you call a roofer you get an estimate or a bid. You can take that to another roofer and see if they can beat the price. If you find a roofer you really like you can negotiate with them and try to get a lower price. They have the right to say " no it costs me X dollars and I need a profit of Y percent so the price is Z dollars" Then you can decide to either pay the price or keep trying to find a contractor to do it for what you think is fair. Eventually you will either have a leaky roof or pay the going market rate for the work.

Negotiating doesn't reduce the access to anything. That is crap!
These folks are really counting on Americans being lazy, stupid and disconnected.

Hopefully there are enough people paying attention that we can override his fascist ass.