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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsManchin says Schumer needs to work with the GOPers!
But yet Manchin continues to block Bidens agenda! Schumer needs to keep doing his attacks on the GOPers and push them out of the way!
LonePirate
(13,431 posts)Im not sure if he is stupid or evil or both as he should absolutely know this.
Baitball Blogger
(46,769 posts)brain where rational thinking takes place is sedated by greed.
Like most pols, he's just doing what he's paid to do. In his case sadly, it appears his coal& Koch funders are insisting on total subservience, and of course, he goes along.
spanone
(135,900 posts)Carlitos Brigante
(26,505 posts)wake up from a coma after 30 yrs. Maybe someone should read him a couple of articles and videos. You know, to bring him up to speed.........
dchill
(38,561 posts)Kid Berwyn
(14,991 posts)Fred Gardner
Counterpunch.org, June 10, 2021
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After some superficial improvements (a stronger spring, clearer instructions) that supposedly justified raising prices, Mylan began its big marketing push in 2009. With almost 90% of the market, their key goal was to get every school in the US to keep EpiPens on hand. Children face the highest risk of a fatal response because many never been exposed to the substance theyre allergic to. Adults generally know what theyre allergic to and try to avoid exposure or carry the antidote.
As Governor of West Virginia, Joe Manchin had appointed his wife to the state Board of Education in 2007. By 2012 Gayle Conelly Manchin would be president of the National Association of State Boards of Education, an official-sounding-but-private outfit that lobbies state boards to adopt policies favored by Association members. In 2016 USA Today (a paper that doesnt get enough credit for serious muckraking) reported that Mrs. Manchin had spearheaded an unprecedented effort that encouraged states to require schools to purchase medical devices that fight life-threatening allergic reactions.
The associations move helped pave the way for Mylan Specialty, maker of EpiPens, to develop a near monopoly in school nurses offices. Eleven states drafted laws requiring epinephrine auto-injectors. Nearly every other state recommended schools stock them after what the White House called the EpiPen Law in 2013 gave funding preference to those that did.
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Heathers brilliant career was launched after Joe Manchin introduced her to the CEO of Mylan. Although her claim to have a Masters Degree in Business Administration was exposed as a lie, her fast rise to the top was unimpeded. Heather had something better than a degree, she had real audacity. And so she quadrupled the price of a drug that several million US Americans must have on hand and buy every year. (Somebody ought to confirm that epinephrine degrades significantly in a year. It might be a pseudo-scientific marketing device like Dial Soaps famous Rinse and repeat.)
Heathers salary rose from $2.5 million in 2007 to $18.9 million in 2015. She was then 45 years old and would have become the poster child of Pharmaceutical Industry Greed had it not been for Martin Shkreli, who raised the price of the anti-parasitic drug Diapram from $13.50 to $750. Then the publicity-welcoming pharma bro won the auction for the worlds only copy of a hip-hop album by Wu-Tang Clan. Shkreli was sentenced to seven years and may still be doing time for securities fraud, but presumably, he got to enjoy Once Upon a Time in Shaolin before the 2-CD rarity was seized by the feds.
Heather is married to a corporate lawyer named Jeffrey Bresch whose firm represents, in addition to numerous Fortune 500 companies, the Pennsylvania Republican Party in its challenge to the validity of votes mailed in on Election Day in 2020. (But thats another story). Heather retired at age 50 in 2020 after arranging Mylans merger with Upjohn. The first woman to head a Fortune 500 Pharmaceutical company, her accomplishments included Mylans acquisition of Abbott Laboratories and a transfer of corporate headquarters to the Netherlands, bringing the merged companies tax rate down from 24% to 21%. The moral of the story is: you dont really need an MBA to be a successful corporate executive.
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https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/06/10/manchin-family-values/
Carlitos Brigante
(26,505 posts)guy from the sticks..." act. He's a cold, calculating CEO who has profited from other's misery for years. His daughter is a bag of shit, while I'm at it.
Mary in S. Carolina
(1,364 posts)So Joe Manchin does not believe in "entitlements" yet his state is the King of Entitlements. OK, then tie payroll to the payroll, profits and all benefits enjoyed by the Owner or CEO.
no_hypocrisy
(46,234 posts)and directly negotiate with our Iligarchs, the Koch Brother.