Opinion: Henry Waxman says restless legs syndrome doesn’t exist, but then...

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Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Beverly Hills), looking hale and hearty after a recent hospitalization, was on C-SPAN this week describing his groggy arrival at the medical institution when someone noticed his leg jerking and asked if he had restless legs syndrome.

The obstreperous Waxman said he knew that such an ailment is yet another example of America’s greedy pharmaceutical companies creating a new disease to market new medicines for Americans to buy and swallow and pump into themselves.

The phone-in program then took the next call from the Independent Line and Waxman was surprised to learn something he didn’t know. Watch his reaction.

-- Andrew Malcolm

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Video courtesy of C-SPAN.