“This was an unexpected victory in a long fight against an illegal cartel of three corporations who have raised their insulin prices in lockstep.”

The Biden Administration pleasantly stunned health care reform advocates Tuesday by including short-acting insulin in its list of 10 drugs for which Medicare will negotiate lower prices, power vested in the White House by the Inflation Reduction Act.

The IRA was passed in the face of one of the heftiest barrages of lobbying in congressional history, with the pharmaceutical industry spending more than $700 million over 2021 and 2022 — several times more than the second- and third-ranking industries — much of it aimed at stopping the legislation, watering it down, or undermining its implementation.

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    1 year ago

    If you want a revolution then you need to get people on board with it first, not politicians.

    And it seems like America’s split down the middle between two groups with very different opinions, so I don’t see that happening anytime remotely soon.

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      1 year ago

      The far left is basically as bad as maga when it comes to wanting a functioning government. They just want their way and they don’t much care about how it happens.