Republicans racing to gut programs that help keep the government budget balanced and others that actually massively benefit their own districts. Highlights of the article include $375 million alone spent by the pharmaceutical industry lobbying to try and kill provisions to allow the government to negotiate drug prices.
Starter comment: pharmaceutical industry reps in the article had the nerve to call drug price negotiations extortion? Meanwhile you have companies like biogen bragging to investors about how their ridiculously priced drugs could bankrupt Medicare. Maybe if they didn’t spend the vast majority of their revenues on marketing and saved a higher percentage for actual r&d they could have more reasonable pricing.
I think I’ve read that only 3 or 4 countries on the planet allow drug advertisements on television.