Big Pharma is LYING about prescription drug price negotiations

[Uncle Joe]

[Backseat Driver]

1. IDK, my Part D premium is going down just a bit

Of course, there are other changes to network pharmacies to be used and formulary, neither of which I've checked out yet.

[George II]

3. Three out of four of our prescriptions have gone down this year, too. I get 3-month supplies...

...of Lipitor and Lisinopril at CVS for $5.64 total. That's less than a buck a month. PRIVATE insurance (United Healthcare) My wife's two prescriptions total $26 for three months.

That's about $10 per month for four drugs.

[sheshe2]

11. Two of mine went from 9 to six dollars.

One went from 9 to 0. All 3 month scripts. That is 12 dollars for 3 scripts/ a 3 months supply of each.

[NurseJackie]

2. I wish there was a ranked list of politicians who get the biggest contributions from "Big Pharma".

[George II]

4. Opensecrets.org compiles it. In fact I posted the list a few days ago, I'll see if I can find it...

Edit: here it is, the top 20 Representatives and the top 20 Senators for the 2020 FEC filing year.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=15861592

Representatives in the last cycle:

https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/recips.php?ind=H04&cycle=2020&recipdetail=H&mem=Y&sortorder=U

1 McCarthy, Kevin (R-CA) $446,334
2 Hudson, Richard (R-NC) $276,993
3 Scalise, Steve (R-LA) $273,427
4 Pallone, Frank Jr (D-NJ) $256,925
5 Eshoo, Anna (D-CA) $248,350
6 Peters, Scott (D-CA) $229,973
7 Brady, Kevin (R-TX) $218,000
8 Guthrie, Brett (R-KY) $210,464
9 Neal, Richard E (D-MA) $206,500
10 Carter, Buddy (R-GA) $185,200
11 Bucshon, Larry (R-IN) $184,254
12 Schneider, Brad (D-IL) $175,599
13 Kelly, Robin (D-IL) $169,050
14 Kind, Ron (D-WI) $165,763
15 Rodgers, Cathy McMorris (R-WA) $163,877
16 Ruiz, Raul (D-CA) $155,575
17 Burgess, Michael (R-TX) $155,050
18 Nunes, Devin (R-CA) $154,141
19 Pelosi, Nancy (D-CA) $151,122
20 Upton, Fred (R-MI) $146,864

Senators in the last cycle:

https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/recips.php?ind=H04&recipdetail=S&sortorder=U&mem=Y&cycle=2020

1 Sanders, Bernie (I-VT) $1,264,615
2 Ossoff, Jon (D-GA) $865,823
3 Warnock, Raphael (D-GA) $765,716
4 Warren, Elizabeth (D-MA) $718,163
5 McConnell, Mitch (R-KY) $556,990
6 Kelly, Mark (D-AZ) $542,307
7 Perdue, David (R-GA) $535,908
8 Loeffler, Kelly (R-GA) $513,231
9 Tillis, Thom (R-NC) $471,884
10 Peters, Gary (D-MI) $370,562
11 Cornyn, John (R-TX) $326,496
12 Gardner, Cory (R-CO) $323,583
13 Graham, Lindsey (R-SC) $309,666
14 Klobuchar, Amy (D-MN) $288,988
15 Daines, Steven (R-MT) $282,838
16 Jones, Doug (D-AL) $276,531
17 Hickenlooper, John (D-CO) $255,760
18 Ernst, Joni (R-IA) $249,961
19 McSally, Martha (R-AZ) $249,136
20 Cassidy, Bill (R-LA) $236,547

[NurseJackie]

6. Bernie is number one!

[AZLD4Candidate]

9. HE takes their money and still fights to reign them in

And change things for us.

One of my four modern day political idols is Bernie Sanders!

If Big Pharma is dumb enough to give him money, take it, use it for re-election (or give it to charity), then keep slamming them and pushing for M4A and Pharma reform!

Go Bernie! Go!

[NurseJackie]

10. Lulz

[LetMyPeopleVote]

7. Thank you for posting this

This is very interesting

[JustAnotherGen]

13. So happy

Menendez, Booker and Malinowski aren't on there.

[Goonch]

5. In Place of Nations by John le Carre:Big Pharma in the United States

The Nation magazine, April 9, 2001



Times have changed since the cold war, but not half as much as we might like to think. The cold war provided the perfect excuse for Western governments to plunder and exploit the Third World in the name of freedom; to rig its elections, bribe its politicians, appoint its tyrants and, by every sophisticated means of persuasion and interference, stunt the emergence of young democracies in the name of democracy.
And while they did this-whether in Southeast Asia, Central and South America or Africa-a ludicrous notion took root that we are saddled with to this day. It is a notion beloved of conservatives and, in my country, New Labour alike. It makes Siamese twins of Tony Blair, Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. It holds to its bosom the conviction that, whatever vast commercial corporations do in the short term, they are ultimately motivated by ethical concerns, and their influence upon the world is therefore beneficial. And anyone who thinks otherwise is a neo-Communist heretic.
In the name of this theory, we look on apparently helpless while rainforests are wrecked to the tune of millions of square miles every year, native agricultural communities are systematically deprived of their livelihoods, uprooted and made homeless, protesters are hanged and shot, the loveliest corners of the world are invaded and desecrated, and tropical paradises are turned into rotting wastelands with sprawling, disease-ridden megacities at their center.
And of all these crimes of unbridled capitalism, it seemed to me, as I began to cast round for a story to illustrate this argument in my most recent novel, that the pharmaceutical industry offered me the most eloquent example......................
https://thirdworldtraveler.com/Corporations/InPlace_Nations.html

[INdemo]

8. My Doctor just prescribed Jardiance for my Type II

Diabetes.30 day supply is $539. I can get it from a Canadian Pharmacy for $139.
Might be able to get this medication thru the VA not sure

Anyway there is $400 difference between U S and Canada and that shouldn't be.

[Uncle Joe]

12. I've never heard a good explanation for that INdemo

[INdemo]

14. Its all about greed and the members of Congress getting their pockets stuffed

That's the Explanation I would suggest another reason coulf the outer space salaries of the Pharmacy CEO's salary and an example of that would be Elli Lilly's CEO

As Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer at ELI LILLY & Co, David A. Ricks made $17,824,705 in total compensation. Of this total $1,483,333 was received as a salary, $2,625,500 was received as a bonus, $0 was received in stock options, $13,587,500 was awarded as stock and $128,372 came from other types of compensation.