This is downright bullshit. Paid off Senators shoving in a drug company friendly shaft up the consumer's ass in a bill they KNOW people will vote for. Vote them ALL out.But buried in a bipartisan compromise hashed out by the U.S. Senate on (gun control) is an unrelated provision they might not be so happy about. Apropos of nothing, the gun bill would enhance the exemption drug middlemen working with Medicare have from the federal “Anti-Kickback Statute.”
That means, in this era of soaring costs, Senate negotiators decided to further insulate the nation’s largest health care companies from a federal law against accepting “any kickback, bribe, or rebate” — using a bill that’s supposedly about regulating guns.
The offices of the two lead negotiators, Sens. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Chris Murphy, D-Conn., didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.
Drug costs have become an increasingly pressing issue in the United States, with Gallup last year estimating that 18 million Americans couldn’t pay for at least one of their prescription medications. Meanwhile, a poll by the Pew Research Center last month indicated that the cost of health care was the No. 2 issue for Americans, ranking only behind inflation.
Yet the gun bill negotiated in the Senate would protect some of the biggest players in prescription drugs and in health care more generally.
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What's Wrong with Washington?
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What's Wrong with Washington?
https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2022/06/ ... middlemen/
Re: What's Wrong with Washington?
Bringing a new dimension to the phrase democracy isn't free...
I'd be outraged if this was the first time it's ever happened which it hasn't...
I'd be outraged if this was the first time it's ever happened which it hasn't...
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Re: What's Wrong with Washington?
Throw the bums out! Except for our bum. He may be a bum, but he is OUR bum.