Behind The Insidious Conservative Plan To Increase The Cost Of Healthcare For Americans
The ONLY Democrat On Team GOP: Maine Blue Dog Jared Golden Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal headline blared Health-Insurance Costs Are...
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Howie Klein
- Aug 30
- 4 min
Pay A Republican Enough And They'll Make The Case For Higher Drug Prices With A Straight Face
Every time Gallup does its poll on honesty and ethics in professions, lobbyists come out at or near the bottom (63% low or very low),...
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Howie Klein
- Jul 24
- 8 min
What's Worse, The Senate, The Supreme Court, The Drug Companies Or The Republican Party?
"All Of The Above" Is Not Allowed This Time Senate rules are arcane, serpentine and, most of all, outmoded and anti-democratic. From the...
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Howie Klein
- Jun 15
- 3 min
The Democratic Establishment Actually Encourages Bad Democrats— They WANT More Manchins And Sinemas
70% of voters just blindly select whichever candidate has a “D” or an “R” next to their name. In congressional races that usually enough...
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Howie Klein
- Jun 8
- 4 min
Congress-- Whose Members Are Bribed By The Drug Industry-- Allows That Industry To Rip Off Consumers
Now Merck Is Suing To Protect Its Greed This conservative-controlled Congress (and White House) is opposed to Medicare for All. That...
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Howie Klein
- May 3
- 4 min
Drugs Cost Too Much In The U.S.-- Can Bernie Do Anything About It?
I had a nice time in Thailand— my first trip away from home since the advent of COVID. There are a lot of reasons to go to Thailand—...
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Howie Klein
- Jan 29
- 4 min
It's Lucrative For Members Of Congress To Forget That Big Pharma Greed Is Killing Their Constituents
In His New Role, Can Bernie Turn That Around? There hasn’t been much in the corporate media about Bernie’s new position as chair of the...
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Thomas Neuburger
- Nov 29, 2022
- 4 min
Pharmaceutical Drugs at Cost Plus 15%? It's Here Now
Mark Cuban's new Cost Plus Drug Company could disrupt Big Pharma forever.
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Howie Klein
- Sep 23, 2022
- 3 min
Conservatives In Congress Want To Take Things Away From People-- Will Voters Take Away Their Jobs?
Oregon Blue Dog Kurt Schrader was the last Democrat in the House to vote against raising the minimum wage and one of the last to oppose...
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Howie Klein
- Aug 12, 2022
- 5 min
That Reconciliation Bill The House Is Passing Today Could Have Been Transformative
This week, Noah Smith wrote that "After some scary June numbers, disinflation finally looks like it has kicked in. Consumer prices as a...
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Thomas Neuburger
- Aug 9, 2022
- 3 min
The Reality of the Democratic Drug Price 'Victory'
On the victory that's not a victory
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Howie Klein
- Aug 6, 2022
- 3 min
Corrupt Conservatives Are Fighting To The End To Keep Drug Prices High
Big day today in DC. The Senate will start going through a plethora or idiotic amendments from Republicans trying to hold up the...
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Howie Klein
- Jul 27, 2022
- 3 min
Better Than Nothing?
Yesterday, NBC ace reporter Sahil Kapur tweeted a pair of quotes from Bernie about the drug pricing “compromise” winding its way through...
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Howie Klein
- Jul 26, 2022
- 3 min
How Will Big PhRMA And The GOP Fight Back Against Lower Drug Prices?
By Flooding The Airwaves With Twisted Ads Piyush Jindal (AKA- “Bobby”) served as governor of Louisiana from January, 2008 to January,...
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Howie Klein
- Jul 21, 2022
- 3 min
What Do We Do About Idiots Who Don't Understand Climate Change & Vote To Melt The Rest Of Humanity?
The NY Times ran this map on Tuesday. It shows political support for Climate Action. Two writers reported that 61% of the voters want...
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Howie Klein
- Apr 4, 2022
- 4 min
The Midterm Fate Of The Democratic Party Rests With Its Corrupt Republican Wing
Without many tangible accomplishments, many voters who could be reasonably expected to vote blue in the midterms will probably stay home...
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Howie Klein
- Apr 1, 2022
- 2 min
What Will The Dems Run On? Incrementalism, Scaring People About Trump And... Messaging Bills?
Last night before adjourning, the House passed a bill to cap the price of insulin at $35 a month, every single Democrat + a dozen...
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Howie Klein
- Mar 25, 2022
- 3 min
As Long As Congress Tolerates Bribery, Drug Prices Will Remain Outrageously High
Republicans and the Blue Dog, New Dems and corporate whores from the Republican wing of the Democratic Party-- and their allies in the...
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Howie Klein
- Jan 17, 2022
- 6 min
Any Blue Will Do? No... Especially Not During Primary Season
A case can be made that there are worse Democrats in the House than corrupt Oregon reactionary Kurt Schrader, a prominent Blue Dog. But...
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Howie Klein
- Dec 26, 2021
- 7 min
The Enemy: Conservatives
Mostly under the Build Back Better rubric, Bernie and other progressives came up with a relatively strong package of programs to address...
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