The point is that there's only so much Congress can do to ignore the public. Legislative capture only works with a docile/annoyed/disinterested public. The publ

The point is that there's only so much Congress can do to ignore the public. Legislative capture only works with a docile/annoyed/disinterested public. The public can and will eviscerate the status quo when it's out for blood. A Congress forced to action by the public isn't particularly interested in appeasing pharma companies and neither are the other lobbies. If they isolate themselves, pharma companies are easily hung out to dry in order to preserve the overall status quo.