Leaders of the corruption caucus
Profits first! Profits first, Republicans second, people last. Take prescription drugs for instance…
In an unusual move, House Republicans are warning drug companies against complying with a House investigation into drug prices.
Republicans on the House Oversight Committee sent letters to a dozen CEOs of major drug companies warning that information they provide to the committee could be leaked to the public by Democratic chair Elijah Cummings in an effort to tank their stock prices.
Or perhaps in an effort to inform the public on a subject they badly need to be informed about: why prescription drugs are so eye-wateringly expensive.
Cummings requested information from 12 drug companies such as Pfizer Inc., Johnson & Johnson, and Novartis AG in January as part of a broad investigation into how the industry sets prescription drug prices.
In their letters, Reps. Jim Jordan and Mark Meadows — leaders of the hardline conservative House Freedom Caucus — imply that Cummings may be attempting to collect the information in order to bring down the industry’s stock prices.
Yeah, or maybe he’s doing it to help the lizard people team up with the illuminati to take over our precious bodily fluids. You just never know.
Democrats expressed bafflement at the letters. While politicians routinely spar over committee work, warning companies not to comply with an investigation is unconventional — perhaps even unprecedented, Democrats say.
Heh heh heh, “unconventional” – they’re such kidders. They mean contemptibly filthy and low.
I am on three prescriptions that are each over $700. If it weren’t for my insurance, I would just have to die because I wouldn’t be able to afford them. Meanwhile, of course, my insurance keeps raising premiums and deductibles, because it is getting more and more expensive to insure people, and the insurance companies also want to share in the obscene profits others are making.
Following the Christchurch earthquakes we took in an elderly American couple whose hotel had been ruined. As they had lost all their luggage, including prescription medicines, I took them to our GP first thing. Twenty minutes later they come out with an extensive prescription list. Trot next door to the Pharmacy. 15 minutes later they come out with a literal shopping bag full of drugs. NZ$55 for the Doc and NZ$60 for the prescriptions. They told me that their co-pay for that quantity in the US would have been over US$900. They left NZ convinced that socialised medicine and a central pharmaceutical buyer had merit after all.
This isn’t bog-standard corruption, though. It’s chemtrail-level conspiracy-mongering from elected officials. This is quickly approaching ungovernable failed-state territory.