Great Article re Sanders Bill.....

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I'm thinnking this should be the final word on the reason so many of us are angry with the Dems that voted with the republicans on the Sanders bill to obtain low price meds from Canada.
I must be careful how I put this as I will be in trouble if I dare to speak against a "democrat" regardless of the reason.
From the article :
But here’s the big question: If Booker and the other Democrats are so concerned about drug safety, why did they vote for the 21st Century Cures Act? Sold as a path to innovation, the bill was actually a massive giveaway to drug companies that wanted an end-run around safety regulations. It came with promises to spend more on public health needs, but those promises were designed to be easily broken.
the Democrats who voted against the Sanders/Klobuchar amendment included some of biggest recipients of pharma cash on their side of the aisle. Booker tops that list with $267,338. Sen. Patty Murray was close behind with $254,649, while Robert Casey received $250,730 and Michael Bennet netted $222,000.

These thirteen Democrats have damaged efforts to provide truly affordable health care. They’ve robbed their party of the moral high ground on an issue voters care deeply about. And they’ve ceded the rhetorical high ground to the empty posturing of the soon-to-be-inaugurated Bloviator in Chief, who said this week that drug companies are “getting away with murder.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rj-eskow/-booker-and-the-other-big_b_14150632.html?1484337529