A joint study between Yale University, King’s College Hospital in London and Doctors Without Borders found a single shot could be made for just 89 cents.
And it ain’t just Manchin, by the way. Remember how instrumental Rep. James Clyburn was in sacking Bernie Sanders during the 2020 presidential primaries? Well, one of the reasons might have been this:
Senator Bernie Sanders is preparing to grill the CEOs of three major pharmaceutical companies.
Sanders: The reason is that the pharmaceutical industry is an extremely greedy industry. Their goal is simply to make as much money as they possibly can. Every other major industrialized country has—in one form or another—national healthcare programs, which, among other things, guarantees healthcare to all of their people, but also puts them in a position to negotiate the prices of drugs with the companies.
In the United States, up until very recently, the drug companies could charge any price they want for any reason. The result of that is that in some cases, we are seeing the same exact prescription drugs sold in America for more than 10 times what they are sold in Canada, or Europe, or Asia.
The problem, in a nutshell, is this:
Manchin received large campaign contributions from daughter’s company amid EpiPen scandal
And it ain’t just Manchin, by the way. Remember how instrumental Rep. James Clyburn was in sacking Bernie Sanders during the 2020 presidential primaries? Well, one of the reasons might have been this:
Clyburn has taken more than $1 million in pharma money in a decade, far surpassing peers
Instead of scolding working-class voters for making poor choices, perhaps they should look at their own.
From Time magazine (via Internet Archive):