Stephan: American drug prices are a prominent manifestation of Vampire Capitalism and the corruption of Congress. They are so high that when you go to other countries and have to fill a prescription you are stunned by the price difference, particularly for drugs essential to someone's wellbeing like insulin. This is what having profit as your one social priority produces. America has 20.2 million millionaires and 750 billionaires. Within this group a subset of White supremacy christofascists is struggling to reshape America. The only thing that can stop them is Americans. That's right, you and me. Happily, there are members of Congress all Democrats it is worth noting, except for a few Republicans like Kinzinger and Cheney, who do understand that policies that foster wellbeing produce superior results. If you do not vote for people like them, should that option be yours to make, you are guaranteeing further degradation of the quality of life.
“This is the biggest prescription drug bill that will pass in 20 years,” said Bill Sweeney, senior vice president of government for AARP. “Nobody wants to pay more money for drugs. It’s an amazing feat of mental gymnastics to go up on TV and argue that it’s wrong to lower seniors’ drug costs. So we are up on the air setting the record straight.”
Special interest groups are hammering the airwaves in states like West Virginia, Nevada, Georgia, New Hampshire and the District of Columbia as the Senate closes in on passing legislation that would allow Medicare to demand lower prices for prescription drugs and cut into the profits of pharmaceutical companies.
The ads have become so ubiquitous in Nevada that Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, who is in a tough fight for reelection, hit the Senate floor this week to defend her record and blast the organization airing them as “a dark money group” that accused her of supporting a bill that would lead to billions of dollars in cuts to Medicare.
