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      US Public Opposes Big Pharma Attack on Medicare Drug Price Negotiations by 5-to-1 Margin

      "Elected officials who align themselves with this unpopular and greedy industry, against the will of voters, do so at their own political risk," said one patient advocate.

      Julia Conley
      Sep 19, 2023

      Republican lawmakers who support Big Pharma's efforts to block Medicare from negotiating for lower drug prices do so at their own peril, said an advocacy group Tuesday as it released polling data that shows the U.S. public overwhelmingly opposes drug companies' scheme.

      Along with Hart Research Associates and GS Strategy Group, Patients for Affordable Drugs Now (P4ADNOW) polled 1,000 likely voters from August 23-27 and found that respondents opposed the numerous lawsuits the pharmaceutical industry has filed to block implementation of the Inflation Reduction Act's provision allowing Medicare to negotiate.

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      'Shameful': Ro Khanna Confronts Big Pharma Lawyer Over Medicare Drug Prices

      The California Democrat accused Johnson & Johnson—makers of the $160,000-per-year leukemia drug Imbruvica—of floating a "flimsy legal theory" in a "desperate attempt to protect profits."

      Brett Wilkins
      Sep 13, 2023

      U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna on Wednesday ripped a senior Johnson & Johnson attorney after she repeatedly dodged questions regarding the legal justification for the pharmaceutical giant's lawsuit alleging government efforts to negotiate lower drug prices are "unjust taking."

      At a House Oversight Committee hearing, Khanna (D-Calif.) grilled J&J assistant general counsel Aviva Weis over the company's federal lawsuit, which argues that Medicare drug price negotiations—an overwhelmingly popular provision of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)—violate the First and Fifth amendments of the U.S. Constitution.

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      President Joe Biden speaks about prescription drug costs

      I’m with Biden—Make the Gougers Negotiate

      Under the president’s anti-inflation policy passed last year, our Medicare program can now negotiate drug prices on our behalf, which will drastically lower what we are now forced to pay to the profiteers for certain drugs.

      Jim Hightower
      Sep 10, 2023

      We human beings sometimes do some terrible things in pursuit of the almighty dollar. But to our credit, one moral line most humans don’t cross is to gouge sick people on the price of medicines their lives depend on.

      Unless, of course, you count executives of giant pharmaceutical corporations as human beings. Gouging patients is their preferred business model.

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