pknopp
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And those on the left wonder why I am not a (D). They go on and on about addressing the costs of health care but they allow the drug industry to write their own sections of the bill just as they did with Obamacare. You know that whenever Cory Booker is saying something its code for "I'm about to fill my campaign coffers with drug money".
In September, Rep. Andy Kim (D-N.J.) began noticing mailers arriving at homes across his district, including his own and that of his parents, with an alarming message. The mailers alleged that Kim was intent on preventing Medicare patients from getting the drugs they needed.
That was news to Kim, who has made lowering seniors’ health-care costs and expanding their access to Medicare a signature issue.
Pharmaceutical industry likely to shatter its lobbying record as it works to shape Democrats’ spending bill
At times you feel bad for the (D)'s as they do on occasion try and do the right thing, like family leave (though they could easily do that as stand alone but won't) but then you remember how they are largely little more than stooges for the Pharmaceutical industry. Let's not forget how even Joe Manchin's daughter screwed over people with the massive price increases of the epi-pen.
Manchin received large campaign contributions from daughter’s company amid EpiPen scandal
But before anyone starts, there is no hope for the GOP in much of anywhere either. People need to start burning things down again.
Research by Patients for Affordable Drugs Now, which advocates for lower prices, found that PhRMA and its allies spent at least $26.5 million on television and digital ads attacking proposals on price negotiations between July and early November. That included $2.7 million spent by PhRMA, but also $4.5 million in ads by the 60 Plus Association, which bills itself as a conservative version of AARP and did not respond to a request for comment.
Also lining up behind the effort was the American Action Network, a major conservative nonprofit advocacy group, with $7.9 million in ads. PhRMA gave the American Action Network $4.5 million in 2019
In September, Rep. Andy Kim (D-N.J.) began noticing mailers arriving at homes across his district, including his own and that of his parents, with an alarming message. The mailers alleged that Kim was intent on preventing Medicare patients from getting the drugs they needed.
That was news to Kim, who has made lowering seniors’ health-care costs and expanding their access to Medicare a signature issue.
Pharmaceutical industry likely to shatter its lobbying record as it works to shape Democrats’ spending bill
At times you feel bad for the (D)'s as they do on occasion try and do the right thing, like family leave (though they could easily do that as stand alone but won't) but then you remember how they are largely little more than stooges for the Pharmaceutical industry. Let's not forget how even Joe Manchin's daughter screwed over people with the massive price increases of the epi-pen.
Manchin received large campaign contributions from daughter’s company amid EpiPen scandal
But before anyone starts, there is no hope for the GOP in much of anywhere either. People need to start burning things down again.
Research by Patients for Affordable Drugs Now, which advocates for lower prices, found that PhRMA and its allies spent at least $26.5 million on television and digital ads attacking proposals on price negotiations between July and early November. That included $2.7 million spent by PhRMA, but also $4.5 million in ads by the 60 Plus Association, which bills itself as a conservative version of AARP and did not respond to a request for comment.
Also lining up behind the effort was the American Action Network, a major conservative nonprofit advocacy group, with $7.9 million in ads. PhRMA gave the American Action Network $4.5 million in 2019
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