Pic Of The Moment: Republicans Act To Keep Drug Prices High

[EarlG]

Oversight Committee Launches Sweeping Drug Price Investigation

GOP lawmakers tell drug companies not to cooperate with House investigation into their prices

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[Harker]

1. Hard at work grubbing for their portfolios...

on everyone's dime.

[tclambert]

13. Isn't there a pill for that?

[Uncle Joe]

3. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread EarlG.

[cstanleytech]

4. Isn't attempting to obstruct a Congressional investigation a criminal offense?

[Fritz Walter]

5. Big Pharma is the real threat

Witness the thousands who have died at the hands of Purdue Pharmaceutical and other opioid manufacturers.

Jordan and Meadows are just as addicted to campaign contributions from donors like the Sackler family as patients are to the poison prescribed by licensed doctors.

[erronis]

12. Nice linkage - pharma poisoning real people while polluting the political process

And the Sacklers/ilk and politicians/ilk are addicted. Money definitely. Probably other stuff.

[Grins]

6. The Republican Party; the "Party of Great Healthcare"

Sure. As long as you keep that in quotation marks....

[IronLionZion]

8. Great for those with money to afford it

and not that great for everyone else

[tclambert]

14. Healthcare for the great, by which they mean rich. Peasants don't deserve it.

If they were virtuous, the peasants would borrow some money from their parents and start a successful business of their own. Right? Isn't that how virtue works?

[kimbutgar]

7. I hope whoever runs against these two repukes runs a commercial saying they are encouraging

Big pharma to keep their prescription drugs high. Who are they supporting you or big pharma? This could really be used against them by their opponent and if their opponents bring it up every time as they themselves talk about lowering prescription job prices it could really weaken Jordan and Meadows reelection chances in 2020.

[Martin Eden]

9. GOP Lawmakers are the servants of the moneyed interests

-- as opposed to the interests of the citizens they ostensibly represent.

[Texin]

10. With Barr working behind the scenes trying to gut the ACA, these thugs ratchet up prices

on prescription drugs and encourage the medical community to keep raising fees for services. It's pretty clear that the KGOP wants everyone but the top 1% of white Americans to just fucking die sooner.

[Firestorm49]

11. WTF! Enough already. Get in there and FIGHT!

[ck4829]

15. K&R

[cp]

16. Two gnats from the Treason Caucus

What, they got stock in Pharma?

[efhmc]

17. What are those pink doilies looking things?

nt

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

18. In 1970, the libertarian economist Milton Friedman wrote an op-ed for the New York Times

In which he wrote, "There is one and only one social responsibility of business — to use it resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud."

This has been taken by the people running corporations as meaning that the sole responsibility of business is to maximize profits.

As another economist, John Kenneth Galbraith, said, "The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."

[ck4829]

19. Wow