1.  To overcome the overwhelming grassroots opposition to Obamacare, the big drug companies have joined with the liberals to spend at least $150 million in TV ads to promote government-run medicine.

The angry reactions of citizens at town hall meetings throughout the nation to the health care legislation in Congress has stunned the White House.  In an attempt to drown out the voices of ordinary people, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) is helping the Left outspend the opponents of Obamacare by a 3-to-1 margin.

The Associated Press reported that PhRMA is prepared to spend even more-in excess of $200 million-in order to pass Obamacare.

Ryan Grim of the Huffington Post noted, "That's a fortune in politics-more than Republican presidential candidate John McCain spent on advertising during his entire campaign-but it's loose change in the pharmaceutical business."

The Huffington Post obtained an internal memo which confirmed that "the White House and the pharmaceutical lobby secretly agreed to precisely the sort of wide-ranging deal that both parties have been denying over the past week."

The Los Angeles Times and the New York Times also verified the agreeement.

In return for the drug association's enormous spending in behalf of Obamacare, the White House agreed to oppose the importation of drugs from foreign countries and negotiation of drug prices for government programs.

House Republican Leader John Boehner wrote to Bill Tauzin, the head of the PhRMA, to denoucne "the $150 million advertising campaign your organization has launched in support of Obamacare with the assistance of well-funded organizations on the Left."

Boehner said, "PhRMA has chosen a Washington takeover of health care at the expense of the American people in hopes of securing favorable treatment and future profits."

2.  In an attempt to reduce the widespread opposition to the euthanasia provisions in the House and Senate health care bills, some supporters of these bills have said they may take out the end-of-life counseling sessions mandated every five years for all seniors.

Whether those portions of the legislation are actually removed from the legislation or not, Dick Morris pointed out that the entire bill is "a death panel."

The former advisor to President Bill Clinton wrote, "Obamacare will ration care extensively.Obama's talk of cutting inefficiencies and reducing costs translates to less care, of lower quality, for the elderly."

Morris cited the Federal Health Board (FHB), which would be established by the legislation.  It would collect data on various forms of treatment for different conditions to assess which are the most effective and efficient.

"With Washington dictating what every policy must cover and regulating all rates, insurers and providers will all have to follow the FHB's advice on limiting care to the elderly," he wrote. 

"In assessing whether to allow certain treatments to a given patient, medical professionals will be encouraged to apply the Quality-Adjusted Remaining Years (QARY) system.to amortize the cost of treatment over the remaining quality years of life likely for that patient," Morris warned.  "The elderly will, inevitably, be the losers."