Drug companies say Dems’ plan will wipe
them ‘off the face of the earth’
Posted By: Ribicon, 9/8/2021 12:15:23 PM
The heads of the nation’s major pharmaceutical companies on Wednesday warned that Democrats’ plan to let Medicare set drug prices would push some of them out of business. The warning upped the stakes in the industry’s fight against the drug-pricing measure in President Biden’s $3.5 trillion social welfare bill, which they previously argued would hamper drugmakers’ ability to create new cures. “It’s going to wipe off the face of the earth some pharmaceutical companies that are household names,” David Ricks, CEO of Eli Lilly and Company and chairman of the industry’s lobbying group, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), said in a call with reporters.
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Big Pharma conspired to oust President Trump because, against GOP opposition, he tried to prevent them from price-gouging American consumers through their usual practice of selling drugs for pennies on the dollar in international markets, and making up the difference domestically. And now they whine about their potential profits under the Marxist administration they demanded. Not too bright, are they?