{"id":5290,"date":"2009-08-22T09:13:46","date_gmt":"2009-08-22T14:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=5290"},"modified":"2009-08-22T09:13:46","modified_gmt":"2009-08-22T14:13:46","slug":"mayor_bloomberg_has_thoughts_on_health_care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/08\/mayor_bloomberg_has_thoughts_on_health_care.html","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Bloomberg Has Thoughts On Health Care . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The lesson being, if you ever start a sentence by sneering &#8220;the last time I checked,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/2009\/08\/21\/2009-08-21_bitter_pill_to_swallow_bloomberg_defends_pharmaceutical_companies__then_takes_it.html\">you probably should have actually checked<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Mayor Bloomberg Friday interrupted a radio health care discussion to blurt out that drug companies &#8212; and their execs &#8212; don&#8217;t make big bucks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Last time I checked, pharmaceutical companies don&#8217;t make a lot of money,&#8221; he said on his WOR-AM radio show. &#8220;Their executives don&#8217;t make a lot of money.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Someone must have quickly rechecked, because he backpedaled after a commercial break.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I looked up the top pay of some of these executives in big pharma,&#8221; Bloomberg said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some of them are making a lot of money. Some of them are making a decent amount of &#8212; more than a decent amount of money.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Corollary: Voters probably don&#8217;t care about what you think about R&#038;D costs . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lesson being, if you ever start a sentence by sneering &#8220;the last time I checked,&#8221; you probably should have actually checked: Mayor Bloomberg Friday interrupted a radio health care discussion to blurt out that drug companies &#8212; and their execs &#8212; don&#8217;t make big bucks. &#8220;Last time I checked, pharmaceutical companies don&#8217;t make a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-follow_the_money","category-things_that_make_you_go_oy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5291,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5290\/revisions\/5291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}