PharmaCash: Democrats are controlled by Big Pharma, new reporting from The Intercept shows

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and the republicans aren't a prize either

Democrats Find Their Big Pharma Bag Is Making It Inconvenient to Take On Big Pharma

Democrats campaigned on the popular reform to Medicare price negotiations in 2006, 2018, and 2020 but bankrolled those campaigns with pharma cash.

theintercept.com

 

[Missouri_Mike]

Wait, you didn’t think the vaccine mandates and promises to by billions of doses for the world didn’t have any kickbacks?

 

[pknopp]

I never thought we needed an investigation to know this.

 

[Lesh]

and the republicans aren't a prize either

Democrats Find Their Big Pharma Bag Is Making It Inconvenient to Take On Big Pharma

Democrats campaigned on the popular reform to Medicare price negotiations in 2006, 2018, and 2020 but bankrolled those campaigns with pharma cash.

theintercept.com

Fuck the Intercept.

Of all the Dems they mention only Manchin and Sinema have stood in the way of negotiating drug prices

 

[MarathonMike]

The Democrat-Big Pharma partnership is willing to wreak havoc on America and the world all for more profit and power.

 

[pknopp]

Fuck the Intercept.

Of all the Dems they mention only Manchin and Sinema have stood in the way of negotiating drug prices

You forget things like Cory Bookers past votes.

Progressives Outraged Over Booker, Democrats’ Vote on Prescription Drugs From Canada - Roll Call

 

[Mac1958]

Politicians are acting differently than they normally would, because re-election and fundraising are higher priorities to them than doing what's right?

No way!

Nothing changes unless and until we change THE SYSTEM under which these people operate. Everything else is noise.


#ForwardParty

 

[mamooth]

Ivermectin, HCQ, monoclonal antibodies ... they're all made by little pharma, you know.

Back in reality, one COVID hospitalization makes more money for big pharma than a thousand vaccine doses.

 

[pknopp]

Ivermectin, HCQ, monoclonal antibodies ... they're all made by little pharma, you know.

Back in reality, one COVID hospitalization makes more money for big pharma than a thousand vaccine doses.

How does a Pharmaceutical company make that much money off a hospitalization?

 

[mamooth]

How does a Pharmaceutical company make that much money off a hospitalization?

A dose of vaccine is about $20.

A day in intensive care can run $20,000.

Yes, only a portion of that is for drugs, but a COVID case won't spend just one day in IC.

 

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[pknopp]

A dose of vaccine is about $20.

A day in intensive care can run $20,000.

Yes, only a portion of that is for drugs, but a COVID case won't spend just one day in IC.

Yes but the Pharmaceutical companies are not who gets the intensive care money.

A dose of vaccine is about $20.

A day in intensive care can run $20,000.

Yes, only a portion of that is for drugs, but a COVID case won't spend just one day in IC.

Pfizer reported that they expect to make 26 billion from the vaccine this year.

Pfizer sees robust COVID-19 vaccine demand for years, $26 bln in 2021 sales

 

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