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Republicans will start by apologizing for Shkreliās mistreatment, or did he not donate enough to them (see also: BP, Joe Barton Ā®)?
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Worse. He tried to donate to Bernie Sanders (who refused his money). This guy has no friends up on the hill.
Last October, a California drug compounding company offered a cheaper version of Daraprim. A bottle of 100 tablets sells for $99.00. Thatās Ninety nine cents a pill. Link:
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What a waste of time. Because heās already under indictment heāll just sit there and repeatedly invoke the Fifth.
So how about they do something useful, like pass legislation allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices. If they just want a bogeyman they could save taxpayers a fortune and simply look in the mirror.
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Medicare pays doctors and hospitals a set amount for a particular procedure or diagnosis. They need to do the same for prescription medications to prevent this sort of outrage, with maybe a carve out for truly unique, one of type drugs.
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Iād feel a lot better if Congress was also seeking out the exemplary CEOs who donāt gouge on prices to ask them what legislation would help them compete with abominations like Shkreli.
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Iām confused. Isnāt this guy the poster child for the kind of āfreedom and libertyā that the Republican House majority claims can only be brought about by small gummint and absence of regulation? Let the markets work their magic!. His mistake is not stuffing enough $$ into the right pockets.
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the 32-year-old former hedge fund managerā¦former Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shkreliā¦ related to another pharmaceutical company he previously ran called Retrophin.
So, itās a world class sociopath whoās been anointed as a Master of the Universe, great. To read his resume youād assume heās a mind-blowing visionary long-game thinker. Instead, we get a petty criminal given the keys to the castle who knows no moral or apparently legal bounds. Heās described as a manager, CEO and having āpreviously ranā. Iād like to see if he can actually hold down a job for more than 12 months considering he doesnāt ārunā anything, he just feeds off others. Addicted to OPM indeed!
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Isnāt that what got us Medicare Plan D? All those exemplary pharmaceutical CEOās who were only pursuing the best interests of their shareholders?
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This guy sure is exceptional. Iāve never wished anyone fall head first into an industrial shredder before.
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Ouch
But still, Iād like elected officials to seek the opinion of people with good intentions, not just crooks who make headlines.
Iād also like my elected officials to be smart people who can tease apart what testimony is good policy and what testimony is pure self-interest. I think we had that once, I doubt Iāll live to see it return.
Too quick ā Donāt ya think ? ? ā
A major part of it would require patent law reforms. Drugs like Daraprim have been around for AGES, yet one guy in one company can buy the patent and then charge whatever he likes.
Basically, drugs like that need to be āreleased into the wildā (as in, eligible for generic forms) much, much sooner. Like, no more than 5-10 years max after initial release, and none of this ātweak the formula or delivery just a tiny bitā and have that equal a de facto patent extension.
Longer term though, we need universal health care access and a government that regulates health care the way we used to regulate public utilities.
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Does HRC propose anything that will control greed mongers like this scum bag? I mean it, seriously. How long do we need to continue with excuses that we canāt expect control right away, ā¦down the road, ā¦down the road, ā¦maybe somedayā¦canāt elect Bernie, he demands too muchā¦? If HRC can solve this, please someone, step forward and present your (her) case.
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I understand guillotines arenāt that hard to buildā¦
The masters of Wall Street, their stooges in the media and their hired hands in both the Republican and Democdatic parties wonder why Sanders and Trump have traction?
Sorry, I wasnāt trying to cast on you, just noting how diametrically opposed the base interests of corporations are when compared to the greater public interest. I agree our Congresscritters certainly seemed to pursue public interest politics quite a bit more, but itās hard to see these days, if it ever was there. I do think thereās a good amount still going on we just donāt see because whereās the news hook in that? Knowing several politicians personally, the pressure of following their own best instincts gets run over in the competitive environment in which they have to exist.
Thanks for your willingness to have a cordial conversation!