Pharma karma
Is there a doctor in the House? Congress is investigating how drug companies have bought the rights to medications, then increased the prices by as much as 5,000 percent, as was the case of Turing CEO Martin Shkreli. Shkreli and others are expected to testify during a House committee hearing this week (Page A9).
Along with questioning the pharmaceutical executives, we suggest committee members also administer colonoscopies, just to be thorough.
Let’s do this again in four years: With the Iowa caucuses over, political attention now shifts toward New Hampshire’s primary next Tuesday (Page A8).
Mirroring the Groundhog Day ceremony in Pennsylvania, Iowa voters reported that Ted Cruz and Hillary Clinton poked their heads out of their campaign buses and saw their shadows, indicating nine more months of presidential campaigns.
Wrap the evidence to go: Even as Chipotle tries to put an E. coli outbreak behind it, federal investigators announced that a criminal probe has widened to include a second restaurant in California (Page A9).
They have to learn: When an FBI agent orders extra guacamole, you don’t skimp.
—Jon Bauer, Herald staff
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