Try reading this very slowly three times; it’s almost difficult to take it in. Do not apologize for knowing - & saying - that something is very very wrong & needs to fundamentally change
Bernie Sanders
 @SenSanders
26 Mar 2021
Drug prices in 🇺🇸 vs. 🇨🇦 Entocourt for Crohn's Disease: 🇺🇸 $830 🇨🇦 $80 Flovent Diskus for Asthma: 🇺🇸 $242 🇨🇦 $28 Crestor for Cholesterol: 🇺🇸 $332 🇨🇦 $67 Januvia for Diabetes: 🇺🇸 $585 🇨🇦 $126 2 EpiPens: 🇺🇸 $686 🇨🇦 $278 We must end this greed & collusion & lower drug prices

Mar 26, 2021 · 9:49 PM UTC

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Too bad Biden reversed Trump's rule to NOT let American drug companies charge more here than in Europe. No wonder those Drug companies gave the big bucks to Biden!
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Premerin cream $430.00 in US for a tube. In Mexico $32.00. Same thing
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“Our government now advocates more for those short term profits—Of the corporations, by the corporations, for the corporations.” Marianne Williamson
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4. Eric Zuess, writing in Counterpunch, isn't surprised by the survey's results. "American democracy is a sham, no matter how much it's pumped by the oligarchs who run the country (and who control the nation's "news" media)," he writes.
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But how 🤔 would we pay CEO"s of health insurance Companies 75k day,Without highly criminal drug prices??
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This is disgusting!
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1.“Large Princeton study that actually analyzed Congress and whether anything happens for Americans that they want,it never ever happens never gets passed through Congress if it doesn’t align with corporate interests” cambridge.org/core/journals/… youtube.com/watch?v=h0d-l1Xe…
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2. When a majority of citizens disagrees with economic elites and/or with organised interests, they generally lose. Moreover, because of the strong status quo bias built into the US political system, even when fairly large majorities of Americans favour policy change,
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3. they generally do not get it. bbc.com/news/blogs-echochamb…
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5. "The US, in other words, is basically similar to Russia or most other dubious 'electoral' 'democratic' countries. We weren't formerly, but we clearly are now." bbc.com/news/blogs-echochamb…
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