House Democrats ready to move drug pricing bill, Big Pharma and Mitch...
While Moscow Mitch McConnell stood on the Senate floor Thursday morning declaring, "Democrats are too busy hosting a panel of law professors to criticize President Trump on television instead of the...
View ArticleRemember when Trump promised to back Medicare negotiating drug prices? Now...
Donald Trump is a liar. Shocking, I know. But I’m not talking about the thousands of lies—actually it’s now well over 10,000—he has told in the course of his time occupying the Oval Office. Today I’m...
View ArticleCalifornia's governor to propose making the Golden State the first to sell...
California’s Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom is set to unveil a proposal on Friday that would make the Golden State the first in the country to sell its own brand of generic prescription drugs. According...
View ArticleTrump’s SOTU: Investors in drug makers ‘should be relieved,’ analyst says
You know when Wall Street is pleased the chances of the 99% getting screwed are high:Many analysts had predicted that President Donald Trump would highlight a push for an international pricing index in...
View ArticleMoscow Mitch makes it clear with opposition to prescription drug pricing...
Impeached president Donald Trump has made lots of supportive noises about a bill with bipartisan support in the Senate to bring down drug prices, written by Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley and...
View ArticleThree Easy Ways John Boehner Can Cut the Budget by A Half Trillion in 10 Years
Dear Congressman Boehner:We know you are in a tough spot these days. President Obama is pressing his election mandate to get a bill passed NOW that would eliminate tax hikes on the 98% of Americans...
View ArticleNC-Sen: Tillis (R) Busted Taking $20,500 From Big Pharma To Push Bill Opposed...
From WBTV Investigates:Senator Thom Tillis accepted more than $20,000 in campaign contributions from political action committees tied to pharmaceutical companies within two weeks of sponsoring a bill...
View ArticleTrump's big health care plan is just a 'taxpayer-funded bribe' to senior voters
The "health care plan"unveiled Thursday at a Trump rally billed as a presidential address is actually worth even less than the paper he signed to "enact" it. Nothing Trump puts forward in the orders...
View ArticleKatie Porter takes price-gouging Big Pharma executive to school with her...
The House Committee on Oversight and Reform (COR) held a hearing today with CEOs of three pharmaceutical companies Teva, Celgene and Bristol Myers Squibb (which acquired Celgene) over drug pricing and...
View ArticleKatie Porter reminds pharma CEO how much of his $13 mil salary came from...
Democratic Rep. Katie Porter has spent her first couple of years in Congress really working hard to point out the corruption and greed being perpetrated by the CEOs of major industries. She’s exposed...
View ArticleTime to Bypass Big Pharma
One thing that will not substantially change as a new government takes power in January 2021 is the near-total lack of advocacy for our needs, as living human beings, where they conflict with the...
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NOW it makes sense why Manchin is a 'no' on Tanden: She called out his...
I’d been trying to make sense of Joe Manchin’s (D-WV) intention to vote ‘no’ on Neera Tanden’s nomination as director of the Office of Management and Budget (other than pure misogyny, which is very...
View ArticleDrugs Companies Fined $360 million For Price Fixing
The UK Competitions (anti-trust) regulator has fined various drugs companies £260 million over a scheme which resulted in a drug increasing in price by over 12,000%. In it the original maker made a...
View ArticleMedicare Part D: WTF is up with 2022 premiums?
I know that those gawd-awful Republicans, and apparently some Dems, too, are balking at doing what EVERY OTHER CIVILIZED NATION ON THIS PLANET is doing and refusing to negotiate a good deal on drug...
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Top Comments: Medicare and Drug Prices Edition
I am taking a one week break from my travel photo diaries to write about a meeting I had today with my congresswoman’s office. If you are looking for the continuation of those diaries, tune in next...
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DRUG prices!!! “Big Pharma is addicted to price gouging, (Compare insulin prices in US with several other countries, add other gouge priced drugs) Republicans are addicted to big Pharma campaign...
View ArticleSenate Democrats give into Manchin on climate, consider making Republicans...
The House voted to codify marriage equality Tuesday, giving gay and interracial marriages federal protections in the Respect for Marriage Act. The surprise element in the vote was the 47 Republicans...
View ArticleThe country can't afford to give the Senate five weeks off for August recess
It’s already the weekend for Congress, never mind that they have a whole load of days not at work in the Capitol ahead of them. Senate has just two short work weeks before heading out on August...
View ArticleRaise Taxes on Rich, Not Interest Rates on Working Stiffs to Combat Inflation
By Karen Rubin, News-Photos-Features.comInflation, inflation, inflation.The “I” word is a constant refrain, achieving its intended goal of stirring anger and resentment. Gas prices high? But they’ve...
View ArticleAbout those anti drug price setting ads
No doubt you've seen those TV ads against “drug price setting.” The ones that moan about price setting cutting off research on new drugs.They infuriate me. They are based on the fantasy that drug...
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