McConnell Says Pelosi's Drug Plan Is Dead

[applegrove]

McConnell Says Pelosi’s Drug Plan Is Dead

September 19, 2019 at 3:58 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 62 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2019/09/19/mcconnell-says-pelosis-drug-plan-is-dead/

"SNIP.....

“Senate Republicans are warning Speaker Nancy Pelosi that her much-anticipated drug pricing plan is dead and will not be considered in the Senate,” Politico reports.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell ruled out any action on the bill: “Socialist price controls will do a lot of left-wing damage to the healthcare system. And of course we’re not going to be calling up a bill like that.”

.......SNIP"

[pwb]

1. No surprise there ha?

.

[CincyDem]

2. What a surprise...McConnell not doing his job once again. n/t

[tymorial]

3. what a shock

I know the Democrats have to keep creating legislation so that they can prove the Republicans are doing nothing but honestly I'm not sure the American public is smart enough to pay attention and recognize the distinction between houses.

[Ace Rothstein]

8. Every Dem running for national office needs to bring up how many bills the Dem House has passed.

And how they have all died in the hands of the Republican Senate.

[Norbert]

4. Yeah Mitch. A 700% price increase is much better than Nancy's plan

I hope he gets voted out.

I hope every diabetic that takes insulin marches on Washington.

[applegrove]

5. I see he is using the word socialist to harken back to USSR socialism. In todays

world those socialists don't exist except for Kim Jong Un Trump's friend. Democrats today are talking about liberal policies when markets fail. But what does exist is Russian corruption of the Republucan Party. Nice projection Moscow Mitch.

[gratuitous]

17. It's apparently the GOP plan for 2020: Call everything they don't like "socialist"

When it comes up in conversation between now and the election (and it will), be prepared to ask, "What do you consider socialism?" Be ready for the blank look, the stammer, and the circular statement, "Y-you know, socialism!"

[diva77]

6. I hope Dems will shout from rooftops that ReThugs are the ones taxing Americans into the

ground, 6' under, to be exact.

Every single move they make COSTS us EXPONENTIALLY MORE than honest government programs; and their airheaded talking points, whether "it's socialism," or "no new taxes" or "we need to cut taxes" are the SCAM of ALL TIME. And I mean ALL TIME.

[elleng]

7. Right, turtle, socialism the way it's socialism that OPM

(the office of personnel management) negotiates with providers of Federal employees medical health benefits.

[madinmaryland]

9. Didn't Nixon use price controls to rein in inflation? If so, then that makes Nixon

a socialist, also.

[11 Bravo]

10. That chinless bag of rancid smegma will declare ANY ...

proposition put forward by ANY Democrat to be DOA, unless he gets marching orders to the contrary from the Oval Office or Moscow, (although technically, that would be one and the same.)

Fuck Mitch McConnell! I hope he lives long enough to see how poorly history is going to treat him.

Moscow Mitch.

That needs to go on your tombstone, you un-American shitweasel.

[lunatica]

11. Hmmmm

Deflecting from the whistleblower story maybe? Is that why he came out if his hidey hole?

[procon]

12. The VA has drug price controls.

They hardly resemble a nest of socialists. How much money does McConnell and his corrupt fellow Republicans take from the pharmaceutical industry?

[Blue Owl]

13. Thanks, McCokeRunner

n/t

[ck4829]

14. ...

[superpatriotman]

15. Anything can sound bad

If words like ‘radical’ and ‘socialist’ are diminished to bookend talking points.

[ck4829]

16. That's the idea

You hear "socialist", you're SUPPOSED to boo, that's what "good Americans" do.

[Midnightwalk]

18. McConnell wants Americans to be cheated by pharmaceutical companies

Or better, Republicans want Americans to continue being cheated by pharmaceutical companies

We just want Americans to get a square deal. Not socialism but a square deal.

Framing this issue should be simple. Getting air time from the corporate media is tougher but we should fight hard on this one.

I don’t know the polling but I don’t think pharmaceutical companies are particularly popular.

[JCMach1]

19. Rubbish, price controls work for RX... That's how they maintain the viability of private insurance

in places like the UAE... where my experience on the issue comes from. It's a free market, but with extremely strict price controls and somehow it works.

Pelosi's plan can make a HUGE difference.

[applegrove]

20. That makes me think: why are republican insurance companies okay

with the price of meds skyrocketing? Do they pay the same price as the public? Or do they get to negotiate deals?

[BlueIdaho]

21. Moscow Mitch may not be long for the Senate

And if he stays he may end up in the minority. I say throw him and his corruption queen wife out of the government permanently.

[lpbk2713]

22. I wish that turkey neck asshole would stop playing party politics.

Especially where my health care is concerned.

[ck4829]

23. +1