I was speaking to a man in Australia whose father is kept alive due to a pill that costs $30,000. I repeat that, $30,000. The medicine is entirely paid for by Australia’s universal healthcare system, for no other reason than that he is a citizen.1/3
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Nothing like that exists here; we’ve been trained to expect crumbs. “Of, by and for the people” has been supplanted by 'of, by and for the corporations,' in this case Big Pharma. Thousand suffer and die each year so a soulless, perverted form of capitalism might live 2/3

Jul 28, 2022 · 8:44 AM UTC

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Schumer touting this bill as something we should be excited about is pathetic. He should be naming names & taking no prisoners, expressing outrage felt by millions that our govt could do no better than get such tiny concessions from the cold & greedy fingers of Big Pharma. 3/3
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Sanders says Democrats’ prescription drug reform bill is ‘weak’

Senate Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said Tuesday that the prescription drug reform proposal that Democrats plan to move under special budget reconciliation rules is “weak,” noti…

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You just said verbatim @TulsiGabbard's stump speech during the 2020 election.
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Apparently the value of a human life means very little in the USA!
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They trained them very well too. You have an entire race of people who want nothing but guns & violence
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So you aren’t going to vote for @joebiden again?
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Point taken, but is it not the case that Australia is also propping up Big Pharma and soulless capitalism in this example?
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not a perverted form... just capitalism
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A perverted form of capitalism may live…no…it’s so people like my mother’s charlatan MD can feed their glutinous base desires…in definite need of salvation…like us all now-a-days…🙏🏽❤️
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