Pharmaceutical Companies
Description
Bartlet paces Oval shadows as Sam pitches the cancer crusade; pharma companies flash as brutal budget reality—potential offsets to score OMB blessing, their vast profits eyed to fund decade-long cure war without fiscal Armageddon. No reps materialize, yet their shadow forces pledge burial, exposing visionary steel bending to offset voids in post-censure tightropes.
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S3E11
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100,000 Airplanes
Bartlet and Sam Lamentably Shelve the Cancer-Cure Pledge
Pharmaceutical companies eyed by Sam for profit offsets, corporate shadows forcing pledge retreat without engagement.
Active Representation
Hypothesized as fiscal target
Power Dynamics
Industry behemoth impervious to instant extraction
Institutional Impact
Highlights private sector's untouchable role in public health funding
Organizational Goals
Protect profit margins
Influence R&D policy
Influence Mechanisms
Lobbying resistance
Revenue opacity
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