Where other generations had to deal with slavery, the suppression of women, the Gilded Age and segregation, we have to deal with the institutionalized greed of a matrix of corporate giants.
Bernie Sanders
 @SenSanders
Jan 8
Does this make sense to you? Companies charging $200-$600 for inhaler products that millions of Americans rely on to breathe, while charging prices like $7, $9, $26 for the same products in other countries. No. Totally absurd.

Jan 9, 2024 · 12:25 PM UTC

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It is unfortunate that Sanders has chosen the path of taking establishment scraps over continuing to build a progressive coalition.
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$1,400 for Pfizer’s Paxlovid, <after> insurance complies, to save lives infected with Covid. Some insurance companies not covering Covid boosters now, putting the cost at $160 to the US citizen. “According to CDC survey data, over 80% of US adults have not received an updated (XBB) COVID-19 vaccine. [UNMC] #InstitutionalizedGreed
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Not only are pharma companies price gouging consumers, they’re also failing to disclose harms of their products in many cases. The companies that developed SRI antidepressants still fail to warn about the possibility of potentially permanent #PSSD.
PSSD Network | Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction
 @PSSDNetwork
13 May 2023
#PSSD has been known about for 35 years, yet patients still aren’t being warned. @DrDavidHealy discusses how drug companies and regulators were aware of enduring sexual dysfunction following discontinuation of SSRIs as far back as 1987.
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Yes, it's the exact old wine getting into new bottles.
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Every. Word. You. Write. SPOT ON!
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They had to deal with that too. Or did you forget about company towns and the Hay Market massacre? Workers have always been fighting the capitalist.
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Nikki Haley was also right when she said the Civil War was about the economy. The Labor Economy. Are we a nation that depends on a "permanent Labor class" or not? It's how the US was founded. England was drifting away from use of Slave Labor, so the US had to break free.
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Greed is the common element.
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Marianne, Have you ever run a business? Why is it that these companies charge us so much but have such low margins?
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