Nap's banned, let's post about Dems being whores for Big Pharma

[Secure Da Bag]

I went to look back at his speeches. The man never promised single payer bruh. Go back and look. Obama ran on change, while still having the same shytty plans as everyone else.

Public option isn't single payer.

 

[Pressure]

The fukk are you talking about. I'm Caribbean. FOH wit that dumbshyt.

Are you nap?

But I confused you in the truck. Or whatever his name. Is.

 

[Secure Da Bag]

Cory Booker's vote against Sanders' Import-Cheaper-Drugs-From-Canada bill got him into a lot of trouble. Not a lot of people bought the "drugs may not be safe" reason either.


Cory Booker’s explanation for voting against cheap prescription drugs doesn’t track.

Cory Booker’s explanation for voting against cheap prescription drugs doesn’t track.
Booker has deservedly taken a lot of heat for voting against an amendment sponsored by Senators Amy Klobuchar and Bernie Sanders that would have created a reserve fund to allow Americans to buy cheap prescription drugs from Canada. Booker was far from alone—12 other Democrats, including Mark Warner and Patty Murray, voted against the bill—but Booker has received the bulk of the attention, partly because of his profile (dude is definitely running in 2020) and partly because Booker often casts himself as a progressive.

But Booker may not have anticipated the backlash he’s received. On Thursday, he sent a defensive statement to Jezebel justifying his decision:

I support the importation of prescription drugs as a key part of a strategy to help control the skyrocketing cost of medications. Any plan to allow the importation of prescription medications should also include consumer protections that ensure foreign drugs meet American safety standards. I opposed an amendment put forward last night that didn’t meet this test. The rising cost of medications is a life-and-death issue for millions of Americans, which is why I also voted for amendments last night that bring drug prices down and protect Medicare’s prescription drug benefit. I‎’m committed to finding solutions that allow for prescription drug importation with adequate safety standards.

The safety argument has been used before, a favorite of the American drug industry and its allies in Congress—but it’s especially egregious after the Cures Act, which was passed last fall and undermines the FDA’s ability to enforce drug safety. Bills to lower the cost of drugs have been routinely killed using this argument, but it is premised on the idea that imported drugs don’t meet American safety standards. This is silly, given that Americans already import drugs from Canada illegally and it hasn’t resulted in a public health emergency. Similarly, the Canadian drug industry doesn’t exactly have a reputation for being dangerous. In many cases, Canadian drugs are made in the same places as ones sold in the United States, except here they are sold for a significantly higher price. Killing the amendment also prevented debate that could have led to the kind of safety structures that Booker wanted to include—if he wanted to fight for drug safety, he could have waited.

Why Cory Booker is wrong about the safety of drugs from Canada

Last week, a proposal, co-sponsored by Sanders (I-VT) and Minnesota Democrat Amy Klobuchar, tried to do just that. The Senate Democrats pushed forward an amendment to a budget resolution aimed at lowering prescription drug prices by allowing American pharmacists, wholesalers, and individuals to bring in cheaper drugs from Canada. As Sanders said in a statement:

The American people pay, by far, the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs. ... But while the drug companies and their executives do phenomenally well, nearly 1 in 5 Americans are unable to afford the medicine that their doctors prescribe.

But the measure, which would have been non-binding, failed by a 52-46 vote. And Cory Booker, in particular, drew fire for joining a dozen Democrats who opposed the amendment, citing concerns about the safety of medicines coming in from Canada. Here’s Booker:

I support the importation of prescription drugs as a key part of a strategy to help control the skyrocketing cost of medications. Any plan to allow the importation of prescription medications should also include consumer protections that ensure foreign drugs meet American safety standards. I opposed an amendment put forward last night that didn’t meet this test.

So this raised a question: Are there actually safety concerns about Canada’s drug supply?

Are drugs from Canada really more dangerous?
To find out, I emailed some of the leading drug safety researchers in Canada and the US. They said they knew of no good evidence suggesting drugs regulated by Health Canada (the Canadian equivalent of the US Food and Drug Administration) were any riskier than the FDA-regulated drugs sold down here.

"There is nothing whatsoever ‘unsafe’ about drugs approved by Health Canada or most Western European countries, or Japan, or Australia," said Jerry Avorn, chief of the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, in an email. "There isn't any evidence that citizens of these countries are having any problems with the purity or effectiveness of their medications."

Joel Lexchin, a professor of health policy at York University in Toronto, called the idea that Canadian drugs are any less safe than US ones "absurd." He added: "Some of the drugs sold in Canada come from the US, and many of the drugs sold in both the US and Canada come from the same manufacturing plants overseas."

I also dug into the research on this question — and didn’t see any red flags. Researchers have done studies comparing the quality of drugs purchased online from Canadian pharmacies with their US equivalents, and found they’re pretty much the same. Some studies have raised concerns about drugs from pharmacies that aren’t certified by groups like the Canadian International Pharmacy Association or PharmacyChecker — but you’d run into the same issue buying drugs online from sketchy sources anywhere.

In other words, the research doesn’t suggest that Canada’s drug supply is particularly problematic.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

I went to look back at his speeches. The man never promised single payer bruh. Go back and look. Obama ran on change, while still having the same shytty plans as everyone else.

Obama has said dozens of times that if he could start over he would do single payer. But the nature of things makes universal coverage within reach.

Plus him pushing for it doesn’t prevent a$$holes in congress from not doing it. He doesn’t write laws. Blame your actual congresspeople for that.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Cory Booker's vote against Sanders' Import-Cheaper-Drugs-From-Canada bill got him into a lot of trouble. Not a lot of people bought the "drugs may not be safe" reason either.


Cory Booker’s explanation for voting against cheap prescription drugs doesn’t track.




Why Cory Booker is wrong about the safety of drugs from Canada

Doesn’t matter. Corey was right to veto that bill. Why should he undercut the hundreds of thousands of drugs in the ground zero for pharmaceutical companies in the USA that he represents?!

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

Are you nap?

But I confused you in the truck. Or whatever his name. Is.

It’s Nap

 

[Secure Da Bag]

Doesn’t matter.

Lying to your constituents and the People does matter.

Corey was right to veto that bill. Why should he undercut the hundreds of thousands of drugs in the ground zero for pharmaceutical companies in the USA that he represents?!

Why should Americans be overcharged for life-saving medicines? Why should Americans die because pharmaceuticals care about high-as-possible profits over saving lives?

What happened to the free market and competition? Now suddenly America isn't for that now?

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Lying to your constituents and the People does matter.



Why should Americans be overcharged for life-saving medicines? Why should Americans die because pharmaceuticals care about high-as-possible profits over saving lives?

What happened to the free market and competition? Now suddenly America isn't for that now?

He didn't lie. He defend the interests of his constituents.

Americans can afford to pay more. Thats why.

They're not overcharged. The rest of the world is broke.

Drugs aren't withheld. You do pay for them.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

It’s Nap

No the fukk its not. Stop creating random conspiracies. You look stupid out here.

 

[Mook]

This nikka did more bids than uncle June bug.

 

[Dominic Brehetto]

Careful OP, you're libel to get low quality warnings and be bushed.

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

No the fukk its not. Stop creating random conspiracies. You look stupid out here.

Why is he being a standoffish dikk? Admit it. NOW

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

@For Da Bag admit to being Nap

Don’t be a p*ssy

 

[the cac mamba]

He didn't lie. He defend the interests of his constituents.

Americans can afford to pay more. Thats why.

They're not overcharged. The rest of the world is broke.

Drugs aren't withheld. You do pay for them.

how coastal elite of you

 

[el_oh_el]

I support this. tough decision but I can’t just say other countries should free ride off the usa’s unparalleled investment and resources and human capital that make us leaders in this field.

They will steal billions in IP in a second

Who gives a fukk? Disseminating life saving drugs vs record profits..and yall corporate whores choose record profits every time. Yall center-left corporatists kill me.