Pharma lobby discovered covertly financing the effort to kill the ACA

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NEW: Pharma lobby discovered covertly financing the effort to kill the ACA.

Many will say “no surprise” but it is disappointing that people creating cures are working against public health.

Their response is in here.

THE STEALTH CAMPAIGN TO KILL OFF OBAMACARE

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/27/business/the-stealth-campaign-to-kill-off-obamacare.html

. . .American Action Network, which was heavily involved in the effort to repeal the act, often referred to as Obamacare. The network spent an estimated $10 million on an ad campaign designed to build voter support for its elimination.

“Urge him to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act now,” one ad running in early 2017 advised viewers to tell their congressman. That and similar material (including robocalls) paid for by the American Action Network ran numerous times last year in 75 congressional districts.

PhRMA was one of AAN’s biggest donors the previous year, giving it $6.1 million, federal regulatory filings show. And PhRMA had a substantial interest in the outcome of the repeal efforts. Among other actions, the Republican-backed health bill would have eliminated a fee the companies pay the federal government, one estimated at $28 billion over a decade.

But there was no way the public could have known at the time about PhRMA’s support of the network or the identity of other deep-pocketed financiers behind the group.

Unlike groups receiving its funds, PhRMA and similar nonprofits must report the grants in their own Internal Revenue Service filings. But the disclosures don’t occur until months or sometimes more than a year after the donation.

The conservative-leaning AAN has become one of the most prominent nonprofits for routing what is known as dark money — difficult-to-trace funds behind TV ads, phone calls, grass-roots organizing and other investments used to influence politics. Such groups have thrived since the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision in 2010, which loosened rules for corporate political spending, and amid what critics say is nonexistent policing of remaining rules by the I.R.S.

[MattP]

1. I'd say they are more into creating treatments than cures these days

[The Genealogist]

3. And more into creating income than treatments

[superpatriotman]

7. treatments that require new treatments

for the myriad side effects the treatments cause...

[Turbineguy]

2. The Russians need all the

American help they can get.

[2naSalit]

4. +1

[Fred Sanders]

5. Who needs Russians when it is legal to wage a propaganda war in the dark?

Citizens United has done untold damage to democracy, as real President Obama predicted...the darkness is vast, this and the NRA dark money is just a small part of the well.

Every major corporation is hiding in the cellars and disgorging pure shit.

[mn9driver]

6. There's no money in curing people.

However, treating them for years with expensive drugs is very profitable.

[superpatriotman]

8. Ask your doctor if _______ is right for you

Can't afford __________? Astra Zeneca may be able to help...

[airplaneman]

16. My doctor told me

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1/3 of patients wont take the drugs they should.
1/3 ask for drugs inappropriate because they saw them on tv.
1/3 will actually take what they should.
And I personally add:
If you can't afford your medication - though shit.

-Airplane

[Scarsdale]

9. Every major hospital

here in Northern Illinois, Southern Wisconsin has built new state of the art cancer treatment centers. If a cure is even on the horizon, why invest all this money into these centers? Are they working to cure it, or spread it?? This is part of the reason why Universal Health Care will not pass. Greedy politicians, with their hands out, greedy pharma companies, and even greedy doctors in some cases. Orrin Hatch has collected plenty of $$$ from pharma, and his son is a lobbyists for them. He is just one reason for the high cost of medical care, and the high number of uninsured citizens. Time to expose the greedy bastards in DC, fight for not just affordable healthcare, but UNIVERSAL healthcare, just like other countries have.

[bucolic_frolic]

11. Heavily into alternative treatments

so much in Utah. They don't want a cure either, they're selling too much stuff

[donkeypoofed]

10. There's NO money in healthy people

They want and need people.to be sick. Big Pharma is disgusting.

[TryLogic]

12. They are not creating cures. They are creating customers, and profit.

[ROB-ROX]

13. PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE

They do NOT cure anything because they would be LOSING money. The big thing is to get people to PAY for their chemicals. Slowly, but surely, people are learning about ways to cure themselves. The GREEN revolution with more and more ways to cure people is out there for people to find and use to cure themselves.

[StarryNite]

14. There's gold...

in them thar pills.

[airplaneman]

15. Cures? I would call them wealth raping machines. n/t.

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