, the pharma executives are expected to be asked to explain price tags that can total as much as a worker’s salary. For example, according to a press release from Sen. Grassley's office, Sanofi’s insulin has riseneanwhile AbbVie’s psoriasis/Crohn’s disease/rheumatoid arthritis drug Humira has fended off cheaper generic competition for over 20 years.
These donations make up only a small percentage of the total contributions pharmaceutical company PACs spend on elections. Between 2017 and 2018 alone, Pfizer contributed over $2 million to federal election campaigns--Merck and Abbvie both spent nearly $1.2 million. Beyond the company PACs, a few of the CEOs testifying Tuesday have made individual contributions to some of the senators who sit on the finance committee. Merck CEOhas spent some $90,000 on federal election campaign contributions in the last decade, $40,000 of which has gone toward current members of the finance committee. In the last six months he donated $5,000 to the campaign committees of Senator Mark Warner, Democrat of Virginia, and $3,900 to Senator Tom Carper, Democrat of Delaware.
YouRKiddingMe5 Bought and paid for politicians - beholden to big money. Free speech really means free graft - organized corruption
Oh well
Whoa, Forbes doin a little muckraking. More, please
115 Americans die every day from an opioid overdose GOP congressman Tom Marino wrote a bill, made the situation worse. The Law made it more difficult to prosecute the distribution of this killer pill Bull shit walks while money talks, throughout the corridors of Capitol Hill.
Bernard Noble was sentenced to 14 years, for possession of 2 joints, But John Boehner’s epiphany sent the stock market up several points. Marijuana, cocaine and heroin dealers are locked up in the caboose, Biggy Pharma, Congress, DEA, DOJ, opioid distributors, are in cahoots.
We need caps on lobbyists
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