Pharmaceuticals Ad Campaign For Health Care Reform

Hot Air asks, "Did the White House cut a deal with drugmakers for an ad campaign?"

Via Jim Geraghty, this looks like a pattern now at the White House. Offer a few concessions in exchange for a bit of third-party campaigning, and everyone wins! In this case, it’s more that the pharmaceutical manufacturers won’t lose as much as they fear, but otherwise the concept is the same as with the NEA’s efforts to get its grant recipients to make art about universal health-care coverage. If the deal explicitly included a requirement for the pharmas to launch their upcoming $150 million ad campaign, this could cross the lines of campaign-finance laws...

It's not new news, the deal having been cut back in June and reported in the New York Times in August, but the question of campaign-finance violations is a new twist.