Posted on 12/14/2024 12:51:44 PM PST by DFG
Congress is trying to ram through a massive spending package this weekend with a $50 billion windfall for big pharma.
They want to remove market-based incentives for pharmacy benefit managers to secure savings on prescription drugs.
Well, I wonder how many congress critters own stock in big pharma companies?
Is there some way to find out?
And THAT is why we are being distracted by New Jersey drones that the Goverment shrugs over.
Money-grubbing parasites, the whole bunch of them. With our money too!
Handouts to their mega donors before President Trump restores fiscal sanity. January 20th cannot arrive soon enough!
Just turn it off.
democRAT mafia and worse.
UNI PARTY is working the weekend for their Christmas Bonus.
Well, those 2026 elections are right around the corner.
Better get those campaign contributions coming in.
“”Big Pharma ad revenue makes up 75% of all the earnings for mass media and news outlets.””
Those ads sure do dominate for sure.
PS - your wife is very clever...
Taking the bribes, ummmm I mean fees away from the pharmacy benefit managers. They decide what can be covered and how much things can cost. Corruption!
The US regime is a mafia enterprise.
The ultimate sin is when the Pharma companies hid data that shows ill effects of their new drug and then bring it to market with tragic consequences, Vioxx is one. In 2011, Merck & Co. paid $950 million to resolve criminal and civil charges related to the promotion and marketing of Vioxx, a painkiller that was later withdrawn from the market:
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It was a very effective drug. It caused heart failure and death in some. Merck hid the data from the studies. How many people know this? Merck paid the fine and business as usual continued.
As a retired clinical pharmacist I well remember the days when if Merck, Glaxo, Burroughs, Smith Kline French, Astra, Lilly, etc. said it we believed without question. Knowledgeable pharmacists no longer believe. Most of their products are good. Some are brought to market before adequate testing is done and harm happens. Then they lie and the FDA pretends not to see.
Good thing we have a government to look out for the little people!!
Pity the DOGE committee can’t fire half of Congress.
Pity the DOGE committee can’t fire half of Congress.
That is our job, not Trum’s
No worry...
The GOP is on alert...
As soon as they have a scheduled break from their perpetual circle-jerk, they will examine the issue...
Stocks and kickbacks. Wow, who knew government benefits were so great.
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