Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), outspoken critic of Obamacare, to have surgery in Canada

[Black Aeronaut]

That just means the generic providers should be the ones getting behind the idea and shoving, to get that share of the pie. Perhaps I'm simply assuming too much enlightenment in the enlightened self-interest...

I've been lead to believe that, much like dollar stores / 100-yen shops, generic drug manufacturers operate on margins too thin to have cash to throw at lobbyists.

Looking at the Wikipedia article on Generics, companies that make them do that and nothing else.  Which means that their only operating costs are that of just making the meds.  They have no R&D to support.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_drug