Congress loves giving handouts to the pharmaceutical industry, and a new batch of legislation will help Big Pharma get their products on the market with even less testing than is required today.  But looking at the financial holdings of some lawmakers helps us understand this predilection towards helping Big Pharma, as a large number of lawmakers actually have investments into the very companies that they are deregulating.

Ring of Fire’s Mike Papantonio and Farron Cousins discuss this, and you can read the full report by Sheila Kaplan on STATnews.com.