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  • While most politicians are out there worried about reelections, worried about the Presidential

  • election, obsessing over EML's and FBI investigations and claims of sexual assault there's actually

  • a couple people in Washington D.C. that are still doing their jobs.

  • Those people include Senators Bernie Sanders and Representative Elijah Cummings both of

  • whom have signed onto a letter to the anti-trust department at the Department of Justice to

  • ask them to investigate possible price fixing collusion between some of the country's largest

  • drug companies.

  • What's drawn their attention to this is recently makers of insulin, even generic forms of insulin

  • have hiked the price dozens and dozens of percent on this life saving medication for

  • diabetics.

  • Well, Bernie Sanders and Elijah Cummings decided to do a little bit more research into this

  • and they found out that when the price of one drug increases it seems that several others

  • also go up at the exact same time.

  • They've put together some charts that show, look, every time one drug goes up all these

  • other ones rise as well showing that there is probable cause that there is collusion

  • between drug companies to systematically raise prices and screw consumers.

  • What's really great about this story in general is the fact that these two men are still up

  • there fighting for consumers.

  • While everybody else is so consumed with campaigning and all that nonsense that goes along with

  • it, fundraising BS, these guys are still working trying to protect us.

  • That's important to me.

  • It should be important to anyone watching this right now.

  • Drug companies are ripping us off left and right.

  • Americans on average pay a higher price for prescription medication than any other industrialized

  • country on this planet.

  • Tens of thousands of percent higher on some medications.

  • There is no reason for it.

  • As I have said a thousand times in the past, most of the research and development done

  • by drug companies is funded by the federal government, by taxpayers.

  • What they're trying to do with these massive price hikes is make back all the money that

  • they have to spend marketing these medications.

  • Again, United States, one of only two countries that allow direct to consumer advertising.

  • Yeah, their costs went up when we allowed that but only because they get to advertise

  • now.

  • They want that money back and then some, that's why we pay higher prices.

  • If people like Bernie Sanders and Elijah Cummings have their way they're going to put a stop

  • to this.

  • They're requesting that the Department of Justice look into this and if necessary let's

  • break out the handcuffs.

  • Let's send Pharma Bro and his little allies to prison for trying to screw American consumers

  • and breaking anti-trust laws.

  • I guarantee you they see one guy walking down the street in handcuffs being shoved into

  • a cop car they'll all fall in line.

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バーニー・サンダースとイライジャ・カミングスは、製薬会社の価格強奪についての回答を要求している。 (Bernie Sanders & Elijah Cummings Demand Answers On Big Pharma Price Gouging)

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