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Who in Congress gets money from pharmaceutical companies?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/many-members-congress-receive-money-040900427.html ^ | 1/31/2025 | Jacob Hess

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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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: bigpharma; bigprofit; congress; congressgetsrich; corruption; overtwothirds; payoffs; quidproquo

1 posted on 02/04/2025 5:08:34 PM PST by CathyWhite
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To: CathyWhite

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-


2 posted on 02/04/2025 5:10:41 PM PST by Bob434 (TTERIES IN THE FIRST ROOM)
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To: CathyWhite

“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.


3 posted on 02/04/2025 5:13:19 PM PST by BobL
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To: CathyWhite

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.


4 posted on 02/04/2025 5:13:58 PM PST by madison10
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To: BobL

Exactly.


5 posted on 02/04/2025 5:16:26 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: CathyWhite

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.


6 posted on 02/04/2025 5:16:28 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: CathyWhite

They might as well just start selling heroin as cold medicine again. Everyone is on the take, and the drug dealers are legal now.


7 posted on 02/04/2025 5:17:16 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: CathyWhite

Shorter answer: who doesn’t?


8 posted on 02/04/2025 5:17:43 PM PST by decal (They won't stop, so they'll have to be stopped)
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To: CathyWhite

“Who in Congress gets money from pharmaceutical companies?”

Probably just about anybody worth bribing.

Maybe anybody who wants some.


9 posted on 02/04/2025 5:20:35 PM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: CathyWhite
Who in Congress gets money from pharmaceutical companies?

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.

10 posted on 02/04/2025 5:28:56 PM PST by chief lee runamok ( Le Flâneur @Large)
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To: CathyWhite

Well, who in Congress doesn’t take money from the pharmaceutical companies?


11 posted on 02/04/2025 5:33:38 PM PST by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: chief lee runamok
My question is: do medical specialists from general physician on up, receive monetary incentive to prescribe drugs?

No, but the drug companies would do this if it were legal.

12 posted on 02/04/2025 5:45:39 PM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: Pontiac

https://www.pharmavoice.com/news/big-pharma-campaign-election-pac-donations/731124/


13 posted on 02/04/2025 6:07:20 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: CathyWhite

Most of them.


14 posted on 02/04/2025 6:12:34 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: chief lee runamok

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.


15 posted on 02/04/2025 8:29:20 PM PST by Veto! (Kamalala Sux Rocks)
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To: CathyWhite

Who doesn’t get money from pharmaceutical companies?


16 posted on 02/04/2025 8:29:45 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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