Democrats and big pharma

[KyMUfan]

For those of us, ummm, experienced enough to remember the Democrats all-out assault on big pharma, do you find it interesting that now the Democrats are the biggest cheerleaders for big pharma and the various Covid vaccines?

To borrow from the Alabama song the Democrat manta seems to have changed from:

"Mr. Roosevelt is gonna save us all" to
"Big Pharma is gonna save us all"...

Hmmm, I wonder what has changed...

Pharma is showering Congress with cash, even as drug makers race to fight the coronavirus

More than two-thirds of the sitting members of Congress have accepted at least one check from the pharmaceutical industry in this election cycle. Explore the breadth of the industry's political giving in these new data visualizations from STAT.

www.statnews.com

Pharmaceutical industry donating more to Democrats than Republicans in the lead up to 2020 election - Pharmafile

The long-term trend of the pharmaceutical industry largely donating to the US Republican Party has been reversed in the lead up to the 2020 election. This is according to a new report from the Center for Responsive Politics which shows that 51% of donations in 2020 from the pharmaceutical...

www.pharmafile.com

Has Big Pharma Bought Enough Democrats to Derail Biden’s Plan?

If Democrats allow the party’s Manchinema wing to derail prescription drug pricing reforms, they could lose their ability to govern.

www.thenation.com

 

[HerdandHokies]

For those of us, ummm, experienced enough to remember the Democrats all-out assault on big pharma, do you find it interesting that now the Democrats are the biggest cheerleaders for big pharma and the various Covid vaccines?

Must’ve been before my time. Big pharma has owned both parties as long as I can remember. Democrats pay a little more lip service for lower drug prices but always have somebody primed to pull the football back just before anything actually happens.

 

[KyMUfan]

Must’ve been before my time. Big pharma has owned both parties as long as I can remember. Democrats pay a little more lip service for lower drug prices but always have somebody primed to pull the football back just before anything actually happens.

Agree with that.

I think it was the Clinton years when the Democrats really worked to demonize big pharma. I had a friend that was a pharmaceutical rep at the time and he joked he was public enemy #1 at the time.

It was pretty obvious at the time and then I'm sure big pharma started throwing money at the "problem" to make it go away.

A lot of this has cultivated my skeptism for what we hear, see and read. Politics does indeed make strange bedfellows...

This is behind a paywall but it might shed some light on the history of this.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/03/04/democrats-demonized-big-pharma-now-its-saving-us-covid-19/

 

[KyMUfan]

Democrats pay a little more lip service for lower drug prices

Actually Trump had some good ideas on this and made some inroads. But like Pat Buchanan he threatened the status quo and was thus seen as an enemy to both sides of the aisle.

Trump Administration Continues to Keep Out-of-Pocket Drug Costs Low for Seniors | CMS

Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the average basic premium for Medicare Part D prescription drug plans, which cover prescription drugs that beneficiaries pick up at a pharmacy. Under the leadership of President Trump, for the first time seniors that use insulin...

www.cms.gov

Under the leadership of President Trump, for the first time seniors that use insulin will be able to choose a prescription drug plan in their area that offers a broad set of insulins for no more than $35 per month per prescription.

 

[Kate Branson]

As long as they can put them on welfare, they like anybody.

We're all on it now. We're all Democrats. We should all celebrate our socialistic bounty, but right now I'm just too devastated over having to be fat and crippled to be able to enjoy it.