Great. The pharmaceutical industry typically shows itself in public either by bringing overpriced drugs to market to finance bogus expenses while ripping off the sick, or by throwing drugs like Lipobay onto the market that in the form they come to market then kill people, or by vehemently refusing to take urgently needed action against AIDS or other epidemic diseases for example in Africa, or by diligently trying to manipulate medical associations, doctors, hospitals and whatever else.
But now the Chancellor wants it to be relieved of burden. The patients - who are first and foremost the victims of the pharmaceutical industry and its rip-offs - are being diligently burdened more.
And with such conduct, the SPD wonders why citizens no longer believe that they stand for social issues? What kind of complete idiot does a politician have to be to spout such nonsensical remarks and then still be amazed when he loses elections by a landslide?
A relief for the pharmaceutical industry would be a slap in the face to all patients. Schröder, that's appalling!
At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD there's the original article.