Discussion: BREAKING: Trump Nominates Former Pharma Exec To Run HHS

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Fox meet hen house.

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Lunatics running the asylum…

ETA: OT but heartening. 400 miliionaires sign letter to Congress saying “do not reduce my taxes”.

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“He will be a star for better healthcare and lower drug prices!”

Ha! Hahahahahaha. That Donald. He sure is card. He and Duterte ought to team up for a comedy team.

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Guess Shkreli wasn’t available.

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Martin Shkreli turned it down owing to a previous committment.

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Yeah, Shkerli checked all of Donald’s boxes. But Azar has one qualification that even that psychopath couldn’t match: Azar was a staff attorney for Ken Starr’s crack Whitewater investigation.

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Beat me to it. Ha.

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Of all the Pharmas, Lilly seems to be the most reviled by docs I know, for the price gouging and general lack of ethics.

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Perhaps his greatest qualification is that he comes with his own private jet?

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“…and lower drug prices!”

In other news, Trump announced his pick to head the DEA: Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán. We’ll get lower drug prices from him as well.

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Azar was a staff attorney for Ken Starr’s crack Whitewater investigation.

I see Trump’s eleven-dimensional chess at work here—Sessions will be forced to resign, and Trump will move Azar to head the Justice Dept so he can begin investigating Mueller.

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We’re going to get so tough on Pharma; we’re going to get those drugs prices down. Believe me!

At this point I think we can also expect that any meaningful action on opioids will come at the state level.

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Azar? A “star”? More like a Czar. Didn’t we get our fill of those with the Bush administration?

CEOs are hardly ever well equipped for political or technocratic leadership. Conservatives always seem to myth the point.

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They’re based in Indianapolis, so there’s probably a Pence connection. But then, Lilly has been notoriously plugged in to the GOP establishment since at least the reign of Bush the Groper…

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Yet another cabinet secretary nominated to dismantle the agency he will run. What is/are Azar’s tie(s) to Russia?

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“By this means the government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.” ― John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace

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You so beat me to it.

The millionaire trump’s thinking of as he pushes this abomination on us is himself of course. And he’s trying to spare the various spawn from the “onerous” estate tax, paid by only about 1% of the very rich.

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