Law & Order Shills for Obamacare

Michael S. Rulle Jr.
Big Hollywood
Nov. 20, 2009

NBC's "Law and Order" is in its 20th season. The economy is weak, so they have devolved to converting White House talking points into weekly shows. Last week, "Doped" was a farcical equivalent of "Damien Thorn meets Karen Silkwood." Pharmaceutical companies and Doctors are worse than drug cartels. The killers in the previous week's episode on such cartels were more sympathetic than the health professionals.

In the opening scene, a woman with 4 children is driving the wrong way down the West Side Highway (like the Diane Schuler Taconic Parkway horror this summer). Speaking on her cell phone erratically (no "hands free!"), the kids get concerned. She decides it is time to use nasal spray for her allergies, which had been spiked without her knowledge. Flash forward and viewers see two mangled vehicles resulting in seven deaths.

Detectives Barnard and Lupo scan the usual suspects; husband (nope, he seems too distraught), in-laws (no reason, plus their kids died), even the cancer stricken mother-in-law (too sincere). We discover the deceased woman and her boss ("Mad Men's" Rich Sommer) have had secret late night meetings for weeks. They discovered their drug company has doctored marketing materials and bribed doctors to push a cancer medication which can extend terminal patients lives up to a few months, although most last at most a week. The medication is a $1000 a day. The episode makes it clear such life extending drugs exist for drug company profit only.

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