A joint study between Yale University, King’s College Hospital in London and Doctors Without Borders found a single shot could be made for just 89 cents.
Unusually, in the first half of this year Republicans and Democrats in Congress were virtually neck and neck in pulling in drug industry money, according to a KHN analysis of campaign contributions. In prior years, Republicans dominated giving from that sector, often by huge margins.
At this point they’re only wagging their fingers to make it appear as though they’re considering regulation.
Again, it’s disingenuous to claim that their pragmatism in the face of unreasonable actors is the same as being the unreasonable actors. What are the left supposed to do? Pull a Trump and pretend that the laws and systems that make our country don’t exist and just say that what they want is law and ignore that half the country is electing morons who will fight them at every turn? That’s not how it works and frankly I wouldn’t want it to work that way because it’s just incredibly dangerous. They’re trying to work within a system where the right has learned they can con half the country into believing they’re doing their job while they sit back and do their damnedest to ensure that the government doesn’t function at all because that’s the only way that conservatives can stop progress at this point with their platforms being as unpopular as they are.
Again, it’s disingenuous to claim that their pragmatism in the face of unreasonable actors is the same as being the unreasonable actors.
I never claimed that. My point is that neither side is likely to do anything to rein in the cost of prescription drugs because they’re both being paid by the pharmaceutical industry to keep things exactly as they are.
George Carlin’s point is that both sides are owned by corporate interests; this has been true for decades. Things have obviously gotten worse since the Trump era, but he exploited the weaknesses in a political system that was broken long before that.
At this point they’re only wagging their fingers to make it appear as though they’re considering regulation.
In reality, they’re being paid well to do nothing about it:
Again, it’s disingenuous to claim that their pragmatism in the face of unreasonable actors is the same as being the unreasonable actors. What are the left supposed to do? Pull a Trump and pretend that the laws and systems that make our country don’t exist and just say that what they want is law and ignore that half the country is electing morons who will fight them at every turn? That’s not how it works and frankly I wouldn’t want it to work that way because it’s just incredibly dangerous. They’re trying to work within a system where the right has learned they can con half the country into believing they’re doing their job while they sit back and do their damnedest to ensure that the government doesn’t function at all because that’s the only way that conservatives can stop progress at this point with their platforms being as unpopular as they are.
I never claimed that. My point is that neither side is likely to do anything to rein in the cost of prescription drugs because they’re both being paid by the pharmaceutical industry to keep things exactly as they are.
George Carlin’s point is that both sides are owned by corporate interests; this has been true for decades. Things have obviously gotten worse since the Trump era, but he exploited the weaknesses in a political system that was broken long before that.