Posted on 02/04/2025 5:08:34 PM PST by CathyWhite
A 2020 STAT analysis found more than two-thirds of Congress receiving a check from pharmaceutical companies that year. More recent data from Open Secrets likewise confirms that a large majority of leaders serving in the U.S. Congress and Senate receive significant contributions from pharmaceutical or health products companies, averaging $45,000 and $47,000 for Republicans and Democrats in the House of Representatives, respectively — and $50,000 and $69,000 for Republicans and Democrats in the Senate.
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Dunno, but Manchin’s daughter got a cushy job invovled with Epipen when MaNCHIN held out on votign for a democrat bill-
and Warren made a whopping $73 million in 10 years in congress-
“Who in Congress gets money from pharmaceutical companies?”
The real question is who in the media is getting money from drug companies.
ANSWER: EVERYONE, through their advertising.
Bernie Sanders gets dollars from five pharma companies, for one. Ted Cruz gets some. There was a list on FR, I do not know the location.
Exactly.
Squaw Warren is screaming awfully loud about RFK, Jr. and his anti Big Pharma goals.
So it’s a sure bet she’s raking in tons of bribes.
They might as well just start selling heroin as cold medicine again. Everyone is on the take, and the drug dealers are legal now.
Shorter answer: who doesn’t?
“Who in Congress gets money from pharmaceutical companies?”
Probably just about anybody worth bribing.
Maybe anybody who wants some.
My question is: do medical specialists from general physician on up,
receive monetary incentive to prescribe drugs?
If so, this practice should be immediately terminated.
Well, who in Congress doesn’t take money from the pharmaceutical companies?
No, but the drug companies would do this if it were legal.
Most of them.
Pharmaceutical companies fund, in part, US medical schools. So upcoming MDs learn a lot about all the drugs they push,
My MD came from Nigeria, and went to med school there. Did his residence in the US, of course, but he was already not a drug pusher. I take one pharmaceutical drug and ten nutritional supplements. He prescribes those supplements after looking them up on WebMD to be sure they have value. So I take one drug and 12 supplements, all on my “extended prescription” list. All deductible meds.
Who doesn’t get money from pharmaceutical companies?
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