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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">kos</font></div><div style=""><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Two of the Trump administrations efforts to do something not horrible on health care have hit big snags. Last week, Trump touted a big initiative to treat kidney disease more effectively, an initiative that will <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/7/11/1871005/-A-win-for-Trump-s-Obamacare-lawsuit-would-end-his-new-kidney-disease-program" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">go away</a> if Trump prevails in his lawsuit to overturn the Affordable Care Act. Oh, well.</font></span></p><div class="p1_4" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Then his big push to make prescription drugs cheaper, an issue that rivals infrastructure in the frequency with which Trump makes big promises, fell through. Unlike infrastructure, his plan to lower drug prices actually got as far as a proposed rule, but it was <a title="" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/white-house-kills-key-drug-pricing-rule-to-eliminate-hidden-rebates/2019/07/11/ff595192-a3de-11e9-bd56-eac6bb02d01d_story.html?utm_term=.ab666042428c" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">yanked back</a> last week. <b>The idea behind it was to ban drug rebates that the drug companies give to insurance middlemen for negotiating prices in government programs like Medicare. The belief was that the rebates were inflating drug prices for the benefit of those rebate brokers, and by getting rid of them the savings would be passed on to consumers.</b></font></span></p><div class="p2_4" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="alt_ad_block story-page-in-content-graph-2" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="teadsNative" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="teads-adCall" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Analysis suggested that instead, the proposal would cost $180 billion over the next 10 years and drive up Medicaid premium costs, and the last thing the administration wants to do is raise Medicare premiums a year before an election.</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Because of course the drug companies weren’t going to pass savings on to consumers: they would far more likely pocket at least some of the rebate money.</span></font></p><div class="p3_4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So, don’t expect to have another week where Trump touts lowering drug prices. It’s about as likely to happen as infrastructure.</font></p></div><div style=""><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">am pro</font></p><header class="entry-header" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit;"><p class="entry-meta" style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 7px; display: inline-block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><time class="entry-time" itemprop="datePublished" datetime="2019-07-10T15:18:58+00:00" style="box-sizing: inherit;">July 10, 2019</time> by <span class="entry-author" itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><a href="https://www.americanpromise.net/author/sfagan/" class="entry-author-link" itemprop="url" rel="author" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Susie Fagan</a></span></font></p></header><div class="entry-content" itemprop="text" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 28px; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><b style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Trump </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">administration-backed rule requiring pharmaceutical companies to disclose drug prices in TV ads was blocked in federal court. Among the arguments was drug companies’ claim that the rule would </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">violate their First Amendment rights.</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> </span></font></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 28px; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">A new rule to require pharmaceutical companies to publish drug prices in their television advertising was </span><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/08/us-judge-halts-trump-hhs-rule-requiring-drug-prices-in-tv-ads.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">blocked by a federal court</a><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"> a day before it was to take effect. President Donald Trump’s administration pushed for the rule as part of its effort to reduce prescription drug prices for U.S. consumers. </span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 28px; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">Three drugmakers—Merck, Eli Lilly and Amgen—filed the legal challenge along with the advertising trade group the Association of National Advertisers, arguing that the rule:</span><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></font></p><ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 28px 40px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style: disc; margin-left: 25px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Went beyond the authority of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services because Congress did not authorize the requirement.</font></span></li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style: disc; margin-left: 25px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Would confuse consumers by forcing them to disclose a price irrelevant to patients with insurance.</font></span></li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style: disc; margin-left: 25px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Violated their free speech rights under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.</b></font></span></li></ul><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 28px; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">That last argument leans on the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the 2010 </span><i style="box-sizing: inherit;">Citizens United v. FEC</i><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"> case. In that 5-4 decision, the court lifted restrictions on corporate political spending, calling the restrictions violations of corporations’ 1st Amendment free speech rights, enshrining constitutional rights for corporations and </span><a href="https://www.americanpromise.net/dark_money_101_secretive_political_donations_grow_since_citizens_united/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">unleashing a wave of political spending</a><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"> from Super PACs and other outside groups.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 28px; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A Hot Topic in Congress</font></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 28px; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px;" /><figure id="attachment_3328" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3328" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 24px 24px 0px; max-width: 100%; float: left; width: 257px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font><figcaption id="caption-attachment-3328" class="wp-caption-text" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A federal judge this week blocked a White House initiative on prescription drug costs, saying the Trump administration lacked the legal authority to require drugmakers to disclose their prices in television ads.</font></figcaption></figure><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;" /><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;" /><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;" /><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;" /><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 28px; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px;" /><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 28px; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The rule, which would have required ads for any medicine with a list price over $35 a month to disclose the cost during the commercial, is just one of several recent attempts on both sides of the aisle to rein in drug prices. </font></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 28px; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Nearly a quarter of Americans say they have trouble affording the cost of their prescription drugs</span>, </span><a href="https://www.kff.org/health-costs/press-release/poll-nearly-1-in-4-americans-taking-prescription-drugs-say-its-difficult-to-afford-medicines-including-larger-shares-with-low-incomes/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">according to a recent Kaiser Family Foundation poll</a><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">, and nearly a third say they don’t take their medicines as prescribed because of high costs. A cross-partisan majority of Americans say drug companies should have to list prices in their ads, as proposed by the Trump administration and advocated for by consumer rights groups, and that regulations should be changed to speed access to generic drugs. </span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 28px; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">Drug prices are a hot topic during this session of Congress, with notable bipartisan support—yet initial efforts have stalled in the face of pharmaceutical industry lobbying, </span><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2019/06/efforts-to-reduce-drug-prices-stall-amid-pharmaceutical-lobbying/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">according to the Center for Responsive Politics</a><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">. Lawmakers are considering several pieces of legislation designed to limit rising costs: </span></font></p><ul style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 28px 40px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style: disc; margin-left: 25px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Affordable Prescriptions for Patients Act, introduced by Sens. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), would classify certain patent practices as anticompetitive,<b> making it easier for the Federal Trade Commission to bring lawsuits against drug companies that try to block generic alternatives</b></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>After backlash from the pharmaceutical industry, </b></span></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="https://about.bgov.com/news/drug-industry-notches-win-as-senator-rethinks-patent-measure/" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">the bill is undergoing changes</a><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><b> in what is being called “a major victory” for the drug industry</b>. </span></span></font></li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style: disc; margin-left: 25px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In late May, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Sens. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Patty Murray (D-Wash.)</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> introduced a more comprehensive bill that targets drug prices as well as other health care issues such as surprise billing.</span></font></span></li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style: disc; margin-left: 25px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In June,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Reps. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), Debbie Mucarsel-Powell (D-Fla.), Doug Collins (R-Ga.) and Ben Cline (R-Va.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">) introduced a bill that seeks to allow for </span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">more generic drugs </b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">by increasing the burden of proof for companies seeking additional patents on an existing medication. </span></font></span></li></ul><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 28px; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">The pharmaceutical industry has long ranked among the </span><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus.php?Ind=H4300" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">top industries for campaign donations</a></b><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">, with the t<b>hree drug companies that filed the lawsuit among among the industry’s top four political contributors for the 2017-2018 campaign cycle.</b></span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 28px; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Overcoming Big Money</font></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 28px; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">In ruling that corporate political spending was protected free speech in </span><i style="box-sizing: inherit;">Citizens United</i><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">, the Supreme Court based its decision on the assertion that corporations deserve these constitutional protections because they are assemblies of people. However, corporations typically don’t represent the opinions of all of the people who comprise them—and </span><a href="https://www.americanpromise.net/5-reasons-we-need-an-amendment-to-say-corporations-arent-people/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">most Americans agree that corporations are not people</a><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 28px; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">The </span><a href="https://www.americanpromise.net/who-we-are/the-28th-amendment/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">28th Amendment</a><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"> will affirm the rights of people in our government—rather than corporations, unions, special interest groups and other big-money influences—by addressing reforms to political spending and other issues, including corporate rights, gerrymandering and term limits for Congress.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 28px; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Through a constitutional amendment, Americans can strengthen our elections, prevent corruption, and ensure equal representation and political equality.</font></span></p></div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><h3 class="post-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 6px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; line-height: 25px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.risingupwithsonali.com/massive-lawsuit-says-big-pharma-is-price-fixing-drugs/" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Massive Lawsuit Says Big Pharma Is Price-Fixing Drugs</font></a></h3><div class="post-author-details" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: " open="Open" sans="Sans" arial="arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" margin="margin" outline="outline" padding="padding" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color"><div class="block-poston" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="posted-on" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 8px 7px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; line-height: 1; min-height: 17px;"><a href="http://www.risingupwithsonali.com/massive-lawsuit-says-big-pharma-is-price-fixing-drugs/" rel="bookmark" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s; text-transform: capitalize;"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2019-06-27T16:50:18-07:00" style="box-sizing: border-box;">June 27, 2019</time></a></span><span class="comment_count" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 8px 7px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1; min-height: 17px;"><span class="fa fa-comments" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1; text-rendering: auto; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0px 8px;">0</span></span></font></div><div class="post-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 9px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">FEATURING PETER MAYBARDUK - The state of Connecticut is leading a nation-wide lawsuit against the world's biggest generic drug manufacturer Teva Pharmaceuticals and a number of other drug makers alleging a</font></p></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">rebecca scheer sp bottle of lies and --bk</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">found US corps buy mfg overseas, factory produces both brand and generic</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2nd 1/2 on drugs</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">bizarre that us taxpayer paid to dev, gave patents to drug corps [they extend scam] but then exported mfg to china inda to max profit and evade regulations</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1/2 all active ingred from foreign</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">==</font></div>