Top Democrats Just Joined Big Pharma to Derail Obama’s Drug Pricing Plan

[bkkyosemite]

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) helped co-author the letter and is pressuring other Democrats to sign onto Neal’s letter, according to the Huffington Post. However, her opposition to Obama’s initiatives may be due to financial pressure from the pharmaceutical lobby. The Center on Responsive Politics reveals that Rep. Pelosi and Rep. Neal’s top donors are from the pharmaceutical industry.

"In the current campaign cycle, Pelosi’s top donor is Express Scripts, who gave $14,000 to her campaign committee. Over the course of her career, the pharmaceutical industry ranked #17 among industries favorable to Pelosi, giving her $352,350 since 1989. Health professionals gave $1.2 million over the same time period.

Rep. Neal’s campaign finance reports paint a similar picture. In the current campaign cycle, Neal received $41,000 from Big Pharma, making the industry his third-biggest donor. Since 1989, Rep. Neal has received $435,821 from the pharmaceutical industry and $703,498 from health professionals, ranking them #6 and #3 on Neal’s top industry donation list, respectively.

Meanwhile, prescription drug prices continue their endless rise, with spending on pharmaceuticals increasing by 13 percent in 2014 alone — the highest increase in a decade. And in 2015, the Kaiser Foundation learned that nearly a quarter of the public didn’t fill a prescription in the past year due to cost reasons.

Although Obama has led the charge on many popular initiatives embraced by the majority of Americans, Democrats continue to obstruct him on some of his key policy proposals."

http://usuncut.com/politics/democrats-big-pharma-obama/

They are all bought and paid for! That is why I am voting for Bernie Sanders.

[RKP5637]

1. It's all about $$$$$'s, so often R=D! One reason I

left the D party and registered unaffiliated. I will vote democratic by the candidate, and not by DNC/DLC/DWS affiliation.

[Baobab]

17. People are dying because they cannot afford to fill prescriptions..This has to stop now.

Prices of common Rx drugs have TRIPLED since Obama took office, and TPP will make things FAR worse.

Drugs should cost the same here that they do in the civilized countries.

Pelosi should be put on trial for corruption for taking money from drug companies. They all should be.

People are dying because they cannot afford to fill prescriptions..

[Jitter65]

20. Go back to the drawing board. TPP will NOT increase the price of Rx drugs. Just the opposite. nt

[TransitJohn]

2. Yay, team Donkey!

[Uncle Joe]

3. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, bkkyosemite.

[ViseGrip]

4. Enough is enough is ENOUGH! NO MORE ESTABLISHMENT!

This is not the first time, Pelosi's seat has been considered as one that should be 'primaried'. This is the rot, and why nothing changes.

Bernie would have to deal with these corporate democrats as he would the republicans. Thanks corporate dems.

Hillary? She would do nothing to 'deal' with it. She's made her deals too.

Bernie or bust!

[RKP5637]

7. It will IMO be business as usual with Hillary. I really don't think she is going to

radically change anything. There could be far worse than Hillary, but I really don't think of her as a major change agent.

[ViseGrip]

12. Exactly, Hillary will only nibble around the edges....of the edges.

[RKP5637]

13. Yep, she won't be the worst president ever, not at all, but

as you say, exactly!!!

[Scuba]

6. ...

"If the Democratic Party would fight as hard for the Working Class as the Republican Party fights for the Ruling Class, the Republicans would be a powerless minority party within a few election cycles.

The Democratic Party knows this, the Republican Party knows this, the Ruling Class knows this- and they've been astonishingly successful at making sure the Working Class never learns this. ~ Anonymouse

[RKP5637]

10. It is an excellent point. The Working Class pays far too much attention to the propaganda

and never looks, usually, behind the curtain.

[Triana]

8. "The billionaire class is very religious. Their religion is greed". . . .

https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/726762935280914432



(and some of them call themselves "DEMOCRATS&quot

[Kip Humphrey]

9. HEADLINE: Hillary surrogates defy Obama and side with Big Pharma to keep our drug prices high.

SUB HEADLINE: Hillary does not intercede with her surrogates in order to support Obama's prescription drug policy initiative.

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edited to say:
I would say something about hubris and arrogance and complete disregard for we the people but that's glaringly obvious.

[Ferd Berfel]

11. Expect this to get worse if anyone except Bernie is in the WH

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after they kill health care they will go after Social Security and Medicare ....between wars

[Skwmom]

14. It's a dog and pony show. We had ALL three branches in 2008 yet we did NOTHING about

the government being able to negotiate drug prices. How many billions has that cost us...

[RKP5637]

15. It is absolutely absurd, not being able to negotiate drug prices, and truly

exemplifies how the US has become not about government for the people, but rather government about providing dollars to their sponsors.

[loyalsister]

21. Dems should have sponsored something to do this when W was president

and let him veto it showing their Rs true colors. Although, it probably would have backfired when some Dems supported him.

[ibegurpard]

16. Vote blue no matter who!

Issues be damned!

[Vinca]

18. This is why it is important to support someone other than the status quo candidate.

No more business as usual. No more bought and paid for government. No more!

[Jitter65]

19. How did Bernie vote? nt