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  • The healthcare criminal enterprise is shitting the bed

    From risky biz@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jan 3 11:23:12 2023
    'Health care lobbyists representing insurers, drugmakers and a range of powerful industry interests are steeling themselves for a Senate chair immune to their usual charms — Bernie Sanders.

    The Vermont independent is set to take over the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee next month.

    But Sanders’ well-chronicled antagonism toward lobbyists has some concerned they’ll be unable to blunt criticism of their clients’ profits or corporate executive salaries. They are anxious Sanders might seek to revive policies like importing drugs
    from Canada and other nations, an idea loathed by drugmakers.

    Lobbyists also worry they’ll struggle to get traction on any push to make changes to a drug discount program involving pharmaceutical companies and hospitals or revisit association health plans after a Trump-era rule around them was voided.

    K Street will likely watch how often Sanders collaborates with the committee’s incoming ranking member, Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), as the two have a history of working across the aisle.

    “Does corporate America have to worry? Of course they do,” he added. “Between a populist Republican like Cassidy and a left-wing chairman like Sanders, they’ll have plenty of anti-corporate areas of mutual interest.”

    🔴Most senior members of Congress have relationships with K Street because lobbyists had worked for — or closely with — them while serving as Capitol Hill aides, have donated to their campaigns or otherwise have become close with their staff.🔴

    Sanders, meanwhile, isn’t rubbing elbows with executives and lobbyists at fundraisers and doesn’t have a “kitchen cabinet” of donor-advisers he talks with about policy, Crowell and others said. He’s sworn off all money from political action
    committees — even ones run by other senators and members of Congress — to his Senate campaigns.'
    https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/03/health-care-lobbyists-bernie-sanders-00075192

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  • From VegasJerry@21:1/5 to risky biz on Tue Jan 3 12:16:48 2023
    On Tuesday, January 3, 2023 at 11:23:17 AM UTC-8, risky biz wrote:
    'Health care lobbyists representing insurers, drugmakers and a range of powerful industry interests are steeling themselves for a Senate chair immune to their usual charms — Bernie Sanders.

    The Vermont independent is set to take over the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee next month.

    But Sanders’ well-chronicled antagonism toward lobbyists has some concerned they’ll be unable to blunt criticism of their clients’ profits or corporate executive salaries. They are anxious Sanders might seek to revive policies like importing
    drugs from Canada and other nations, an idea loathed by drugmakers.
    .

    I don’t believe that will be possible as House Republicans will continue to block that. Ever since Bush2 accepted a $3 million bribe from Big Pharma, Medicare can not negotiate prices with them. And Medicare cannot purchase from out of country. Trump
    joined them and President Biden can’t get around the filibuster.
    .

    Lobbyists also worry they’ll struggle to get traction on any push to make changes to a drug discount program involving pharmaceutical companies and hospitals or revisit association health plans after a Trump-era rule around them was voided.

    K Street will likely watch how often Sanders collaborates with the committee’s incoming ranking member, Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), as the two have a history of working across the aisle.
    .

    But he, too, takes money from Big Pharma.
    .
    So $35 insulin will stay at $600 a month, unless you’re on Medicare. And, as reported in a consumer magazine, Big Pharma, that produced 33 new billionares in the last two years, will probably produce another 33 in the next two years.
    .
    Why not, with my pills costing Medicare $1,500 a day for me. You guy keep voting Republican..
    (Until YOU need pills. Then you can lose you home, car and savings before Medicaid picks you up).
    (Oh, and Medicaid CAN negotiate prices).
    .

    “Does corporate America have to worry? Of course they do,” he added. “Between a populist Republican like Cassidy and a left-wing chairman like Sanders, they’ll have plenty of anti-corporate areas of mutual interest.”

    🔴Most senior members of Congress have relationships with K Street because lobbyists had worked for — or closely with — them while serving as Capitol Hill aides, have donated to their campaigns or otherwise have become close with their staff.🔴

    Sanders, meanwhile, isn’t rubbing elbows with executives and lobbyists at fundraisers and doesn’t have a “kitchen cabinet” of donor-advisers he talks with about policy, Crowell and others said. He’s sworn off all money from political action
    committees — even ones run by other senators and members of Congress — to his Senate campaigns.'
    https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/03/health-care-lobbyists-bernie-sanders-00075192

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