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Article: Pfizer drafting customers to lobby Drug maker hopes form letters opposing price controls get forwarded to Congress
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- January 27, 2007
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WASHINGTON - Ward Wetherell is used to receiving health tips about
such topics as "good" cholesterol from Pfizer Inc., the world's
largest drug company. This month, however, the glossy brochure Pfizer
sent to Wetherell's home in Needham tackled a national policy issue
days after a crucial House of Representatives vote to lower
prescription drug prices.
Congress needs to hear that market forces, not the government,
should control prices, said the "For Living" brochure, which included
form letters addressed to Wetherell's representatives in Congress.
"History reminds us that when the government interferes in a free
market and controls prices, the results can be dangerous," it warned.
Pfizer ...