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Rep. Katie Porter Exposes Big Pharma Scam in Epic Smackdown - MeidasTouch (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Jun 2022 OP
K n R ! Thanks for posting! JoeOtterbein Jun 2022 #1
Thanks! She really is just the best! Rhiannon12866 Jun 2022 #2
We need more like her, FoxNewsSucks Jun 2022 #3
Exactly! Rhiannon12866 Jun 2022 #4
K&R Bayard Jun 2022 #5
can you imagine a teenaged kid of Katies coming home late Skittles Jun 2022 #6
Nay, she'd just give them the "LOOK" KS Toronado Jun 2022 #9
Not all Democrats... TiberiusB Jun 2022 #7
Oh no! The whiteboard! SheltieLover Jun 2022 #8
Love Katie Evolve Dammit Jun 2022 #10
A guy in my hiking club is a retired statistician... worked for two pharmaceutical companies. 3Hotdogs Jun 2022 #11
Yikes! And I thought that my prescriptions were expensive - not to mention my dog's! Rhiannon12866 Jun 2022 #12
Sirius/XM radio constantly broadcasts advertisements for Dinovite.... pills for your dog if your dog 3Hotdogs Jun 2022 #16
Bravo !! K&R Duppers Jun 2022 #13
She's always fighting for us! Rhiannon12866 Jun 2022 #14
Indeed she does! Duppers Jun 2022 #15
Has anybody checked out Mark Cubans site for RX's? flying_wahini Jun 2022 #17

JoeOtterbein

(7,702 posts)
1. K n R ! Thanks for posting!
Mon Jun 20, 2022, 10:03 PM
Jun 2022

I just finished watching the whole clip.

Katie is so smart I listen to her every word.

Her knowledge gives me a bit of hope for the future!

FoxNewsSucks

(10,434 posts)
3. We need more like her,
Mon Jun 20, 2022, 10:06 PM
Jun 2022

and less like Manchin, Sinema, Gillibrand, and a number of other senators & reps who don't put enough importance on public good.

Rhiannon12866

(205,839 posts)
4. Exactly!
Mon Jun 20, 2022, 10:09 PM
Jun 2022

Too many - the majority of Republicans - are in elective office for what it can do for them. Katie Porter is on the side of the American people, fighting for them - and I wish that we had 100 more just like her.

Skittles

(153,174 posts)
6. can you imagine a teenaged kid of Katies coming home late
Mon Jun 20, 2022, 10:28 PM
Jun 2022

she'd whip out the white board to go over the excuses

TiberiusB

(490 posts)
7. Not all Democrats...
Mon Jun 20, 2022, 10:28 PM
Jun 2022
https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2021/09/pharmaceutical-industry-backs-democratic-holdouts-on-drug-pricing-plan/

Does anyone really need to be told at this point that Republicans are the worst? Democrats know it and Republicans think it's a virtue.

Trash like Sinema and Manchin, along with corporate sellouts like Rep. Scott Peters (D-Calif.), Kurt Schrader (former D-Ore.), Kathleen Rice (D-N.Y.), and Sen. Robert Menendez all did their part to stick a knife in drug pricing legislation.

This is what happens when simply focusing on getting a "D" into power, the "electability" calculation, takes precedence over character.

In the end, if money...legalized bribery...isn't dealt with, democracy in the U.S. hasn't got a chance.

3Hotdogs

(12,400 posts)
11. A guy in my hiking club is a retired statistician... worked for two pharmaceutical companies.
Mon Jun 20, 2022, 11:53 PM
Jun 2022

One of the companies he worked for, had a pill. Those pills rolled of a hopper at a rate of 80,000 a day. They sold for $25.00 per pill.

Rhiannon12866

(205,839 posts)
12. Yikes! And I thought that my prescriptions were expensive - not to mention my dog's!
Tue Jun 21, 2022, 12:03 AM
Jun 2022

My dog has a prescription for itch medicine that controls a persistent skin condition (considering that he's 16, I consider that lucky that's all he has had) - but at $2.53 per daily pill, a two month prescription is $151.80 - guess I'm lucky for that, as well...

3Hotdogs

(12,400 posts)
16. Sirius/XM radio constantly broadcasts advertisements for Dinovite.... pills for your dog if your dog
Tue Jun 21, 2022, 12:23 AM
Jun 2022

itches, stinks, sheds, lethargic..... the voice over woman reports about how the vet recommended putting the dog down because of a vertebrae problem.

Dinovite cured her dog where the dog is still alive.

So I gets to thinking..... I'm 80 and my little soldier doesn't come to attention quite as quick as he use'ta. I was wondering if Dinovite would put some steam into the little guy.

What do you think?

flying_wahini

(6,640 posts)
17. Has anybody checked out Mark Cubans site for RX's?
Tue Jun 21, 2022, 12:27 AM
Jun 2022

It’s called Cost Plus Drugs and the prices are truly what they should be. If that makes sense.
Big pharma is probably really pissed about it.

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