It is. I think that's your challenge. I don't know if it's really my place to advise you in that regard.
It's important to understand a little bit of history here. Maybe that would help you at least contextualize it. It used to be that the federal government contributed to charitable organizations like patient advocacy groups, but in the mid-1990s, they decided to no longer fund organizations of that kind if they had a policy-lobbying arm, because the government didn't want to have to engage with an organization that's ultimately giving it grief for a policy that it didn't like. That created a vacuum, and in defence of these organizations, they had to fill that gap somewhere, so industry was only too happy to step in and provide that funding.
It varies across the developed world, but in some countries they continue to fund their patient groups only on the condition that they prove that they're independent from industry. In many of those countries, it's much easier to have a rational, evidence-based discussion about policy changes, in particular policy changes of this kind.
I'm not saying that every patient group that accepts money is biased, and I'm sure they certainly don't feel that way, but there's a lot of research out there to show that, when you take money from someone, it—even implicitly, without your knowledge, subconsciously—impacts your views. There's definitely a correlation, and a pretty strong one, between where patient groups stand on these reforms and the extent to which they accept funding from industry. Whether it's positive, I don't know, but there's definitely a correlation. It's hard to deny if you go through those briefs.