This is your party on drugs: can the Democrats win on prescription-drug prices?
American Prospect, The, July, 2002 by Confessore, Nicholas
ABOUT THREE YEARS AGO, POLLSTER CELINDA Lake sat down with then-Representative Debbie Stabenow--a Michigan Democrat preparing to run for the Senate--to put together a campaign proposal for prescription drugs. Stabenow had already made headlines busing senior citizens across the border to buy affordable prescription drugs in Canada; she wanted to make high drug prices the focus of her campaign against Republican Spencer Abraham, a leading ally of the pharmaceutical industry.
Lake's polling showed that people resented high drug prices enough that they were ready, even eager, for a ...
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