Katie Porter does it again tweet:

[applegrove]

Link to tweet

[uponit7771]

1. K, for a NANO second in the beginning I felt sorry for that guy. He was going to get eating alive..

... cause Rep Porter does ... ***ALL*** ... her homework on an issue and doesn't take his crap.

All her kids got straight A's ... her husband too !!!

The Pharma companies are some assholes the lot of them, excluding the stock buybacks they lie a lot and people go broke paying for HC in America

This shit needs to go

[Moostache]

54. Brings new meaning to "shake your money maker"...

I love Congresswoman Porter. She should be in leadership for the Democratic Party IMHO.

[blm]

2. Perfectly presented.

[thesquanderer]

27. I think she did mess up just a little...

She asked how much was spent on exec compensation from 2013 to 2018, he answered about $60 million a year, and she replied "try 334 {million} on for size," which implied his figure was way off... but $60 mill a year over 6 years is 360 million, so he actually was close, and in fact over-estimated.

But yeah, she did a good job overall.

[blm]

29. 2013 to 2018 is 5yrs. 2013 through 2018 is 6yrs.

Perhaps she was saying the actual compensation totaled $334m per year.

[thesquanderer]

38. She asked about a given time period; her 334 was presumably for that time period. After all...

...she knew the answers she was going to put up before she presented the questions, so they should certainly have been the correct answers for the questions as asked... and she seems the kind of person to get that stuff right. I think she just knew what she wanted to present and wasn't necessarily paying a whole lot of attention to how the guy answered, he was just there to be her straight man. Besides, when the guy didn't know a figure, he said he didn't know. Any time he gave a figure, it was roughly correct. He wasn't guessing, he knew the right answer, and he gave it, an average of somewhere around 60 mill/yr.

[blm]

39. Could be. Could not.

Maybe a clear answer will come up.

[Faux pas]

3. Kicketty Kickin'

[Arkansas Granny]

4. She is amazing.

[FakeNoose]

5. My Lord, isn't she wonderful?

I don't feel a bit sorry for that guy. He's Martin Shkreli in a Brooks Brothers suit. That guy didn't get caught the way Shkreli did, but he's just as bad. The Big Pharmas are all like this, and it's one of the main reasons why our healthcare costs and medical insurance are so high in the US.

Thank you Katie Porter!

[applegrove]

6. +1000

[MyOwnPeace]

32. O-M-G!!!!!

So you're saying we should go the "socialism" route just because they're making gazillions in our wonderful 'health-care' system?




And the sad thing is: Did anybody anywhere even hear that round of questioning, or were our "Representatives" checking their phones to see if their stocks "took a hit" because of that mean, nasty lady........

[FakeNoose]

34. It's hard to tell, but this might have been a virtual hearing

I don't know anything other than this tweet from Katie Porter.

But it seems to me, the guy answering her questions has a different background setting that's not the Congressional hearing room. She might have had the camera on her, and then the guy answered through the internet, like a zoom meeting.

Does anyone know?

[JT45242]

7. Wonder what he did to piss off his boss

He was sent to the slaughter. She shredded him.

I would not want to be the guy sent to her committee ...but then again I still have a soul so I don't work at the corporate office for a bug pharma company

[Operaweeble]

8. Why isn't this woman president?

[zuul]

10. She will be one day.

[housecat]

14. promise?

[ZonkerHarris]

17. fingers crossed. I wanted Newsom to make her Senator to replace Kamala Harris but

I never got that pony for Christmas either.

[murielm99]

18. Padilla is the first Latino Senator

in a state that is about 40% Latino. Also, he has a science background.

My daughter and her husband are very satisfied with their new Senator.

Katie Porter is great, but she needs a bit more experience.

[ZonkerHarris]

43. What are they satified with exactly? He's okay but he's a corporate friendly moderate

who has been a professional staffer and politician for 25 years.
He broke in as Dianne Feinsteins assistant and is straight from her mold.
I'm not expecting him to go out on a limb for anyone or challenge the system.
Just like her.
Porter is a protege of Elizabeth Warren.
She's a pitbull politician taking the fight to the power brokers, just like her.
I prefer those types instead of the corporate compromised politicians in our party right now.
But if you can tell me anything he has done in the last few months that has helped in our battles with the GOP and corporate fraudsters like Porter please let me know.

[murielm99]

50. Ooooh, Katie Porter for President!

AOC for President!

Joe Biden has not even completed six months of his term and anyone, no matter how inexperienced, who stands up to a republican should be President! I get very tired of all the oohing and aaahing by DU members.

You will notice that Warren was not the nominee. She was not the person who won the election. I could care less who Warren mentored.

If you prefer the pit bull types, well good for you. They definitely have their place in the party. So do the experienced politicians. Like Padilla. Like Biden.

If Porter has been appointed, what then? A special election? More drama? We nearly lost the House as it is. We may lose it yet in 2022. Porter is needed right where she is. I like her there.

What has Padilla done in the last few months? He has voted with the Democrats. He has done his job. Not everyone has to be a pit bull.

Save your snark for the republicans.

[MyOwnPeace]

33. With THAT answer........

I now understand your "ZonkerHarris" moniker!

[ZonkerHarris]

40. No relation. :)

[whathehell]

45. Excellent question -- Katie Porter for President!

Elizabeth Warren was her mentor -- I'll take either or both as President/Vice President.

[Lahru]

9. Accountablity

Big pharma doesn't like it.

[LanternWaste]

11. She avoids flash and gotcha-style slogans, and simply lays it out as it is.

That being a major reason I like listening to her above her slicker, more media/social-media oriented colleagues.

[blm]

30. ✔️

[Karma13612]

12. "Well, when you put it like that...."

Katie Porter is just awesome.

The way she drills in on the facts is just breath-taking. It puts everything in perspective and certainly silences the BS artists.

She and Sheldon Whitehouse are magic on their presentations!

Love them both.

[hatrack]

13. That was a Castle Bravo-scale nuking .. .

[SunSeeker]

15. The word "confront" does not adequately describe what Katie did there. She eviscerated him.

Love her.

[lastlib]

21. Gutted and Filleted!

And he never had a chance to flop!

[monkeyman1]

16. talk about a ream'n !!

[Jay25]

19. I thought taxpayers funded their research.

[drmeow]

42. Taxpayers often fund the pre-clinical research

Then, thanks to BS technology transfer laws, NIH funded academics sell their patents to big Pharma to run the Phase Three trials because the academics don't have the manufacturing.

[Jay25]

58. Figures. Thanks for the info.

[blogslug]

20. God, she's good at this

[Dave says]

22. She is fantastic!

Was that the Abbvie CEO? He looked terrible.

[Layzeebeaver]

23. Katie Porter is a National Treasure

Nuff said.

[marieo1]

24. A Heroine

Katie Porter is amazing............she is so smart and is not afraid of anyone. There is no one that can explain the facts like she can. She is a barnstormer!! She is fighting for all of us. Thank you, Katie Porter............

[KewlKat]

25. Can we clone her like a million times?

[PatrickforB]

26. She is SO good!

Outstanding member of the House. Studied under Elizabeth Warren, too. With any luck she will serve a long time, and maybe even make Senate or the Presidency. Or Secretary of Commerce. Consumer Protection.

And the white board - that is priceless!

[Luciferous]

28. I love her so much! These guys must know when they go in front of her she is going rip

them apart, you think at least one of them would come prepared 😂

[AllaN01Bear]

31. its very expensive for a drug here . but the same drug overseas is very cheep. why?

[MyOwnPeace]

35. Simple........

go back and watch her questioning again. She DOES ask the right questions - but nobody else in the room cares.

What we do not see are the rest of the committee - the people that will ultimately allow things to continue the way they are.

[hay rick]

36. K&R

[dflprincess]

37. Everytime I see her question someone, the person she's questioning makes me think of Nathan Thurm

Link to tweet

[panfluteman]

41. These Drug Companies Are So Corrupt and Unaccountable to the Public

Because they have a virtual monopoly on healthcare in this country. Develop natural healing like herbal medicine, as well as holistic medicine and complementary and alternative modalities. Give the healthcare consumer a real, viable alternative to these jerks.

[Elessar Zappa]

44. Most herbal medicine is snake oil.

I’ll take medicine that has actual research behind it.

[applegrove]

47. But powers that be did take things that help, like magic mushrooms:

OCD and depression; marajuana: pain, sleep, upset stomach, glaucoma, etc., off the legal market. Psychadelic mushrooms grow everywhere in the world and were used by humans everywhere for 100,000 years. We are only now untipping that boat. Big pharma got a great canadian vaccine maker to go away. So we could not make our own covid vaccine. Some herbals really work. Ginger is good for sore stomachs, etc... When that became undenyable pharmaceutical companies started selling it. The point is their only point is profit. We should never expect them to think properly of anything else with any morals or talent and not let them make any other decisions for our countries. They should be heavily regulated. Citizen's United should be overturned.

[LittleGirl]

46. She really is the best at this

Can you imagine if we had 535 congress members like this? What a government we would have!

And those numbers are outrageous! OMG

[area51]

53. +1

We need congressperps to actually start caring about people, like Katie Porter does.

[calimary]

48. Dayum, she's wicked!

[Imallin4Joe]

49. Big K&R

[Celerity]

51. she smashes the lies and false framing that big pharma shills so often spew, love it

[Celerity]

52. Abbvie just increased the price of its top-selling drug Humira to $77,000 for a year's supply

Meanwhile, in Sweden, we pay about a 10th of that for biosimilars (which are not allowed in the US until 2023, and will likely be already obsolete by then).

US healthcare/pharma/insurance is the biggest wealth extraction/transfer scheme and scam on the planet.

Those Ferraris don't buy themselves.

Link to tweet

[BComplex]

55. Katie Porter is a national treasure.

We are so lucky to have her in congress.

I wish we could put her on every cable news channel 20 or 30 times a day with these investigations.

[BootinUp]

56. Reminder to watch nt

[Aussie105]

57. Sorry, not sorry.

But I didn't watch that.

It would bring up a question in my mind that I can't find an answer to.
(Well, I can, but the answer isn't pretty.)

When this idea of profit before concern for a person's health first popped up in the US, why wasn't it squashed at conception?

It has in every other country. Health care, everywhere else, is a human right, and it needs to be accessible and affordable. And governments have made it so.

Except in the US.

I live in a 'socialist' country.
I can predict my future medical expenses. A trip in an ambulance will cost me, and so will a trip to a dentist.
Nothing else.
And no, we don't pay for any medical insurance.

Wife had treatment for lung cancer with follow up scans. Bills? What bills? Not getting any, not expecting any.

Paying bonuses to top execs is a clear sign the US health system is geared towards profits, and not so much helping sick patients.

Sad!

Katie has done her homework and pointed out the problem.
But she is not the first to do so. It's not news.

Question now should be: What are you going to do about it?