The pharmaceutical industry had come up with an ingenious plan to send drug prices ever higher, while protecting itself from competition. But it needed a Washington insider, someone who wouldn’t lose sleep over hosing America’s sick and infirm, to do its bidding on Capitol Hill.
Just such a man was waiting in Eden Prairie.
During his decade in D.C., Erik Paulsen essentially turned his office into a lobbying firm. His positions were exquisitely synchronized to the wishes of our mightiest corporations. He was especially good at harnessing the riches of Big Pharma and medical device makers, taking $1.2 million from our foremost artisans of price gouging.
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