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      Sen. Bernie Sanders

      Sanders, Dems Invite Pharma CEOs to Testify on Sky-High Drug Prices

      "The American people have a right to know why it is that they pay, by far, the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs," said the Vermont senator.

      Jake Johnson
      Nov 21, 2023

      U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders and every Democratic member of the committee he chairs sent letters on Tuesday inviting the CEOs of three major pharmaceutical companies to testify at an upcoming hearing on the nation's prescription drug costs, which are so high that millions of Americans are forced to ration their medications to save money.

      "The American people have a right to know why it is that they pay, by far, the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs while the pharmaceutical industry in the U.S. makes hundreds of billions in profits and pays their CEOs tens of millions of dollars in compensation," Sanders (I-Vt.), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, said in a statement.

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      Rep. Ro Khanna

      '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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