Sinema Threat Followed Boost From Pharma Group

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https://www.dailyposter.com/sinema-threat-followed-boost-from-pharma-group/

A PhRMA-backed dark money group started running ads for Kyrsten Sinema just before she threatened to take down Democrats’ drug pricing plan.

A dark money group funded by drugmakers launched ads promoting Sen. Kyrsten Sinema just before the Arizona Democrat informed the White House that she opposes the party’s plan to lower prescription drug prices as part of President Joe Biden’s $3.5 trillion infrastructure reconciliation package. Sinema’s threat to kill the legislation came despite a recent poll showing more than 80 percent of Arizonans support the Democrats’ proposal.

During her career, Sinema has raked in more than $500,000 from donors in the pharmaceutical and health products industries — and she is now the sixth largest Senate Democratic recipient of campaign cash from those industries this election cycle, according to data compiled by OpenSecrets.

Democrats’ drug pricing measure is based on H.R. 3, the Elijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act. It would allow Medicare to use its bulk purchasing power to negotiate lower prescription drug prices. H.R. 3 would save the government $456 billion over 10 years and “reduce prices by 57 percent to 75 percent, relative to current prices” for various medicines, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

On Sunday, Politico reported that Sinema “is opposed to the current prescription drug pricing proposals in both the House and Senate [reconciliation] bills,” adding that she “met with President Joe Biden on Sept. 15 to discuss the social spending package.”

NOTE: PHRMA has been running misleading adverts on MSNBC aimed at seniors -- telling them that they won't be able to access needed drugs if Medicare is allowed to negotiate drug prices. If that doesn't make sense to you it's BECAUSE IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE. Seniors can't access drugs NOW due to the damn cost of them which are ASTRONOMICAL in the US. We pay more here for prescription meds than ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD -- and that is because of lawmaker capture: Big Pharma sends SWARMS of lobbyists to cajole lawmakers NOT to stop their fabulous gravy train. Like....what JUST HAPPENED WITH KYRSTEN SINEMA.

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1. I'm ill we have years left of this woman's term in office.