Love that he’s still hitting the pavement. Bernie is one of the real ones.
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Why can't there be more politicians like him?
Money!
Good stuff Bernie, wish you'd been our president
I wish he had been president back in 2016. Things would have been so much better.
Imagine how much differently the pandemic would have played out with Bernie at the helm. He wouldn't have thrown away the existing pandemic response plan that the Obama administration had left behind. He wouldn't have delayed the response to the emerging pandemic because it was primarily hitting areas governed by a different political party. He wouldn't have had the federal government seizing PPE equipment from states and businesses in order to redistribute it where it would do him the most good politically.
Millions of people would be alive today if Trump hadn't been in charge when the pandemic hit.
I'm not from the US but I greatly admire Bernie Sanders. Few US politicians seem to care about working class Americans as much as he does.
Any drug made with even a penny of taxpayer money (grants, funding, etc.) should be priced to taxpayer-affordability levels, with any corporation making it beholden to production SLA’s that severely ding them (far more than they could ever make off of the drug) if they cannot meet 100% of market demand.
Plus, set up a government company whose sole purpose is to serve the public by producing drugs at cost for anything that isn’t meeting market demand. As in, massively undercut the Parasites.
Then make this retroactive to all drugs, all the way back, no matter when they were developed.
If a drug company wants to suckle at any teat other than 100% self-funded, they would have to put 100% of their own money towards developing that drug. As it is, there are ZERO DRUGS that haven’t been developed on the taxpayer dime, either in part or in whole.
Feel the burn ❤️🔥
This is the best summary I could come up with:
But Sen. Sanders scored a win on Friday, as the CEO of Novo Nordisk, the maker of Ozempic, agreed to testify about the prices he’s charging consumers.
Sen. Sanders is chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), where he’s been investigating Big Pharma and the prices that Americans are forced to pay for drugs that have been used in recent years for weight loss like Ozempic and Wegovy.
“I enjoyed the opportunity of chatting with Mr. Jørgensen this afternoon and thank him for agreeing to voluntarily testify on a solo panel before the HELP Committee on the high cost of Ozempic and Wegovy in the United States,” Sen. Sanders said in a press release.
“Novo Nordisk currently charges Americans with Type 2 diabetes $969 a month for Ozempic, while this same exact drug can be purchased for just $155 in Canada and just $59 in Germany.
Novo Nordisk also charges Americans with obesity $1,349 a month for Wegovy, while this same exact product can be purchased for just $140 in Germany and $92 in the United Kingdom.”
The Inflation Reduction Act passed in 2022 will now allow Medicare to negotiate on just 10 drugs, but Big Pharma has been fighting that modest change in court.
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The answer is simple. The corporate G is giving every one the D evidenced by everyone crying 'EE'
"Well you see senator, we're really, really greedy."
If only.