dem sen bob menedez also on the big take from pharma

[butters]

https://www.salon.com/2021/10/25/no...cation&utm_source=Pushly&utm_campaign=1535149

Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., one of the top recipients of campaign contributions from the pharmaceutical industry, said last week that he won't support a House plan to allow Medicare to negotiate lower drug costs as part of President Biden's Build Back Better plan.

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Welch said H.R. 3 would accomplish that goal but acknowledged that as things stand the bill did not have enough votes to pass both chambers of Congress.

"We're going to have to make some modifications and we're in the process," he said adding that the goal of "having this benefit consumers" was the most important ingredient.

The Senate framework for the final bill is expected to include some Medicare negotiation and a cap on out-of-pocket costs, David Mitchell, the founder of the patient advocacy group Patients for Affordable Drugs Now, told Salon.

But Politico reported last Friday that pressure from pharma-backed lawmakers, including Menendez, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., Rep. Scott Peters, D-Calif., and Rep. Kurt Schrader, D-Ore., is likely to force Democrats to make major concessions on the number of drugs that could be negotiated.

so long as rules allow these grifters to accept huge donations of lobbyist funding, their interests have to be conflicted. they're as guilty as manchin and sinema for putting spokes in the wheels instead of helping the american public.

 

[CornusKousa]

You mean yet ANOTHER of the vax fascist are owned by big pharma??

No way!!

 

[pecksniff]

. . . vax fascist . . .

Stupid even for you.

 

[CornusKousa]

Stupid even for you.

Why???

Are you lot not ready and willing to destroy the lives of anyone who doesn't do what you guys tell them??

Because that's what all the news reports and clips of the Vax-Fascist are saying.