Sanders Praises $35 Cap on Inhalers Just Six Months After Probe Into 'Outrageous' Prices | Common Dreams
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"Americans who have asthma and COPD should not be forced to pay, in many cases, 10 to 70 times more for the same exact inhalers as patients in Europe and other parts of the world," said the independent senator from Vermont.
  • Gerudo@lemm.ee
    361·
    5 months ago

    What are we going to do when Sanders is gone? He’s the only one that seems to get shit done.

    • jeffw@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      5 months ago

      It’s not like other progressive humans don’t exist. They just have to run. Do your part by helping out progressives running at lower level offices now so that they can be our Senators in the coming years.

    • finley@lemm.eeEnglish
      46·
      5 months ago

      Thanks Sanders for making Biden do that.

      This was one of those campaign promises he made when Sanders conceded in the primary. Pepperidge Farm remembers.

    • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
      30·
      5 months ago

      From the article:

      In April, President Joe Biden hosted a gathering at the White House where he credited Sanders and the HELP committee for spearheading the effort that led to the pharmaceutical companies caving under the public scrutiny.

      Biden gives Sanders credit for this.

  • BigMacHole@lemm.ee
    42·
    5 months ago

    This is SOCIALISM! We NEED Inhalers to be Thousands of Dollars otherwise there’s no Incentive for Big Pharma to INVEST (in MANSIONS and YACHTS)!

    • beardown@lemm.ee
      32·
      5 months ago

      Socialism would be if the inhaler companies were democracies that were owned by everyone who worked there, rather than dictatorships owned by a CEO.

      This isn’t socialism. It’s social democracy, and arguably simply social liberalism