The MPs I've spoken to put it less dramatically - but powerfully enough.
Genzyme wrote the book on making a profit on incredibly rare genetic diseases like MPS I, which Aldurazyme treats.
In MPS I, a buildup of certain compounds in connective tissue leads to frequent infections, joint deformities and impaired heart function.
Most MPs I talk to on and off the record, on both sides of the House of Commons, are not convinced his departure would achieve anything.
In April, it received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for not one but two drugs: Aldurazyme, a treatment for the rare genetic disorder MPS I that is co-marketed with Novato, Calif.
Frankly, I think 600 MPs is quite enough and also I think it is fair that every seat should have the same number of voters in it.
This week his bill was due to be debated again by MPs but when I rang him for a progress report he told me it had been withdrawn for technical reasons.
Nigel Farage, leader of the UK Independence Party, said the debate was "a good start... but with all party leaders demanding that their MPs reject the motion I hold out little hope of a yes vote".
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All in all, I suspect the MPs felt they had received their due.
Now I think that our MPs will be looking for a number of things.
And I gather most SNP MPs will be around tomorrow to put their concerns about the implications for Scotland.
Since anyone in the press gallery can see the glow of i-phones and i-pads as MPs tweet and e-mail through debates, that last one is more a case of catching up with reality than breaking through into the 21st century.
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My priority is that I want to empower the MPs as also the 5, 000-odd legislators in various states.
No, because I was one of those MPs who had been to Northern Ireland at the time of the Ulster Workers' Strike.
And today I want to invite the MPs in those communities to work with me to open up the education system in their areas to the new providers who can raise standards.
I'm talking about Welsh Labour MPs and their blunt message to the First Minister on the devolution of policing.
"All I will want to do is make sure MPs understand what's happened, " he added.
Ditto, I suspect, the current constituency boundaries for MPs, most of whom are currently enjoying the summer recess away from Westminster.
During exchanges on future Commons business on 8 March 2012, Sir George Young told MPs the beer "got more coverage than any subject I have discussed I think in two years".
His huge expenses showed, said Mr Davies that "I was one of the most hard-working MPs in Britain".
Now I hope that by working together with the local MPs and with the two hospitals in the county, we can find a better way forward for our hospital services.
The next morning, I had not got my coat hung up before Conservative MPs were all but queuing up to tell me she was finished.
There's also a motion under Section 4A (2) of the Parliamentary Standards Act, which (if I read it aright) concerns the Commons power to punish MPs by withholding salaries.
Well first of all I have met quite a lot of candidates from the ethnic minorities and of course in the last Parliament we had a sitting MP and I would want to see that increase, I genuinely would, I'd also like to see the number of women MPs increase.
"I never wanted to be prime minister, " is what she told her party MPs late on Tuesday.
I'm not entirely convinced - my guess would be next Tuesday will find MPs debating Lords amendments to some bill or other.
As a Westminster-based reporter, I am as guilty as the next person of knowing little about how these Euro MPs spend their time.
Whether it's what our MPs are up to in Westminster, or what our councils are doing to us locally, I'll aim to be across it.
"Uniquely in almost 16 years of being a constituency MP, but probably unwisely, I let my true feelings get the better of me, " Mr Loughton told MPs.
"I have been absolutely clear that I would never introduce a bill that encroaches or threatens religious freedoms, " she told MPs.
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