Drugmakers have filed multiple lawsuits to try to block the new Medicare negotiation program, claiming that price reductions will harm American patients. However, some of those same companies recently raked in upward of $4 billion in revenue last quarter selling six of the targeted pharmaceutical products in foreign countries at lower world-market prices. That’s more than $47 million per day — or $2 million an hour.
Pharma-Funded Republicans Go to Bat for Drug Industry as Medicare Moves to Negotiate Prices
"Did a Big Pharma CEO write these talking points for you on the back of a campaign check?" one critic asked Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn.
Polling data released this week shows that nearly 90% of Republican voters support allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices directly with pharmaceutical companies
@br00t4c it’s a fight Congress should have had with #bigpharma 40 years ago.
Honestly, this issue is not corporate America’s fault. The tax code should not incentivize unbridled greed. Instead sustainable development with investment into research and including international markets would serve the people of this country and the developing world.
“One Night Cough Syrup” from the 1930s, which contained cannabis, morphine, chloroform, and alcohol! In 1934, the FDA ruled that the claims of the cough syrup's therapeutic properties were misleading, and remaining stock was destroyed.
We were actively suppressed multiple times, mostly for being against the #militaryIndustrialComplex and their wars for #oil, and for supporting journalists being persecuted for speaking truth to power (#JulianAssange).
It became quite obvious.
FYI #MindsDotCom are cloudGlare and we can report that they suppress (read: actively delete) posts critical of #BigPharma. Minds recently joined Fedi and should be blocked.