...to pressure GOP* members of Congress to keep the drug cash cow gushing.

this ad, and I think it will fall on deaf ears because of the fact that people on Medicare know they are paying significantly more for the price of their Rx drugs

it means that the public doesn't have the ability to be price gouged any more. The Republicans believe that businesses must have the right to charge as much as they can, for anything, even if through price fixing and collusion.

WTF is wrong with those folks and their desire to affirmatively keep our citizens for paying a little less for drug prices.... god damn them all to Hell.....

they have basically alienated everyone except for the white racists. now trying to do this, they will even alienate the older white racists.

it's truly amazing.

or did they "explain" to him why this is a bad idea?

Pre existing conditions int the last election, and that didn't work too well.

If they try and fight against letting medicare negotiate lower prices for drugs, it won't work for them either.

Democrats will be able to go after every republican that sides on this dumb idea.

The ads will make themselves.

Republicans, to a person, claim they want the government to be run "like a business."

There is not one private-sector health insurer that doesn't negotiate drug prices. Not one!

So...when the government DOES run "like a business" - negotiating drug prices, for instance, or investing Social Security payroll deductions like every bank and insurance company on the face of the earth does - the GOP loses its fucking minds.

So, which is it? Should the government run like a business, or shouldn't it?

I changed the channel.

fiscal stability for ordinary folk?

Oh, yeah. Big Pharma—obviously one of those who holds reins of pols. They made that clear in 90s when Clinton caved to Newt et al on this very subject of govt negotiating prices.