Of course Erik Paulsen is now lobbying for Big Pharma’s ultimate scam

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.

View the complete May 9 article by Pete Kotz on The CityPages website here.