Anonymous ID: d853a0 Oct. 4, 2020, 10:02 a.m. No.10917513   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7532

Dems Trying to take some credit edition?

 

House Democrats—including three Squad members—tore into pharmaceutical industry chief executives during a Wednesday congressional hearing on Big Pharma profiteering, with Rep. Katie Porter verbally eviscerating one CEO for more than tripling the price of a critical cancer drug.

 

Wednesday marked the first day of a two-day House Oversight Committee hearing titled "Unsustainable Drug Prices: Testimony from the CEOs." Bristol Myers Squibb CEO Giovanni Caforio, Teva Pharmaceuticals CEO Kåre Schultz, and former Celgene CEO Mark Alles all endured nearly four hours of grilling over the price of prescription drugs—which are almost always far more expensive in the United States than anywhere else in the world.

 

Porter (D-Calif.), a former consumer protection attorney, was the most ferocious committee member to address the CEOs. Bringing out her infamous white board, she attacked Celgene's repeated price hikes for the cancer drug Revlimid, which now costs $763 per dose—in 2005 it cost $215. When Alles attempted to explain that the drug has been approved for new uses, Porter hit back, and hard.

 

"Did the drug start to work faster? Were there fewer side effects? How did you change the formula or production of Revlimid to justify this price increase?" Porter asked. "To recap here:The drug didn't get any better, the cancer patients didn't get any better, you just got better at making money—you just refined your skills at price gouging."

 

Porter has built a reputation for speaking tough truth to power, on issues ranging from defending access to crucial public benefits, to challenging mega-bank CEOs on income inequality, to exposing the pernicious influence of dark money in politics.

 

Toward the end of Wednesday's nearly four-hour session, three of the four members of the so-called Squad—Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.)—slammed the CEOs over what Ocasio-Cortez called the "exorbitant cost" of life-saving medications.

 

Armed with a chart showing the cost of 40 milligrams of Teva's multiple sclerosis drug Copaxone is more than five times as high in the U.S. as in Britain, Ocasio-Cortez refuted an assertion by Schultz that medications cost more in the United States because American patients have "very broad, and very early access" to new drugs.

 

Citing Teva's own internal documents, Ocasio-Cortez showed the company was forced to lower prices by European governments—which unlike the U.S. have institutedspending controls—even as it raised prices for American patients.

 

Pressley asserted that "the lack of access to affordable life-saving medicine is an injustice [that] represents an act of economic violence and an attack on the basic principle that healthcare is a fundamental human right," while Tlaib ripped Schultz for using charitable donations like "a side hustle."

 

"Your pharmaceutical company makes these so-called charitable donations so you look like you give a shit about sick people," said Tlaib. "But in reality these are just another scheme by your corporation to make money off of sick people."

 

https://www.salon.com/2020/10/04/katie-porter-eviscerate-big-pharma-ceo-over-exorbitant-drug-prices_partner/

Anonymous ID: d853a0 Oct. 4, 2020, 10:22 a.m. No.10917746   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7849

Former CDC chief calls for 'comprehensive approach' as U.S. reports 55K new cases

 

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2020/10/03/Former-CDC-chief-calls-for-comprehensive-approach-as-US-reports-55K-new-cases/3581601751345/

Anonymous ID: d853a0 Oct. 4, 2020, 10:25 a.m. No.10917787   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7806

The new lockdown imposes stay-at-home orders on all Israel, allowing citizens to distance themselves from their residences by about half a mile if they need essentials such as food or medicine…

 

…Israel’s hospital system is overwhelmed and on a fast track to collapse, according to the nation’s top experts responsible for COVID-19 patients.

 

At an extraordinary press conference, Dr. Avishai Elis, the secretary of the Israel’s Internal Medicine Association, warned the public of an imminent disaster and the “tragic implications” of the paralysis which has taken hold of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government regarding the nation’s hospitals….

 

…For every coronavirus ward opening up, she noted, a non-coronavirus ward closes. There are not enough doctors to operate both. Patients who would otherwise receive top-notch care were being discharged early and “in the coming months hospitals will be forced to make unimaginable choices,” she said.

 

The Health Ministry announced on Thursday that due to shortages, it is experimenting with the reuse of PPE for medical staff in hospital COVID wards.

 

Hospital directors were also incensed by the Health Ministry’s refusal to provide doctors with flu shots from the first batch that arrived in Israel— advising them to wait till November—and by the ministry’s lack of transparency regarding contagion.

 

https://www.thestreet.com/mishtalk/economics/israels-shutdown-and-their-medical-system-is-collapsing-0dgyaQ3aSUaBF2vgnAMJfA

Anonymous ID: d853a0 Oct. 4, 2020, 10:35 a.m. No.10917887   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>10917849

Masked 10 hours a day before the virus - workfaging. Muh favorite is when libs think Anon a safe place to say how effective masks are.

Should see their faces when they learn the virus can go straight through it.

 

On the plus side Anon got a large grin when asked from a patriot the other day if anon had ever heard of Q.

Anonymous ID: d853a0 Oct. 4, 2020, 10:38 a.m. No.10917922   🗄️.is 🔗kun

TCH bad it makes the media reports not so terrible and easy to ignore.

Does THC interfere with the effectiveness of the mind altering effect of the narrative?