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Uncle Joe

(58,366 posts) Thu Nov 28, 2019, 10:56 AM Nov 2019

Sean Hannity launches attack on Bernie Sanders' drug price plan -- and it immediately backfires

Fox News host Sean Hannity on Wednesday launched what he believed was a scalding attack against Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-VT) drug pricing plan — but it immediately backfired when people responded to say it sounded amazing.

“SANDERS: ‘We are going to ensure that no one pays more than $200 a year for the prescription drugs they need…'” Hannity wrote on Twitter while linking to an article on his website that made fun of the Vermont senator for promising lower drug prices.

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Many people following Hannity, however, said that only having to spend $200 a year at most on prescription drugs sounded like a great idea, including one follower who challenged the premise of Hannity’s article by showing exactly how Sanders plans to slash the cost of drugs in the United States.

Link to tweet

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Check out some additional reactions below.

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https://www.rawstory.com/2019/11/sean-hannity-launches-attack-on-bernie-sanders-drug-price-plan-and-it-immediately-backfires/

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Sean Hannity launches attack on Bernie Sanders' drug price plan -- and it immediately backfires (Original Post) Uncle Joe Nov 2019 OP

Sean is right ritapria Nov 2019 #1

Let us be thankful for the highest drug prices in the world, Uncle Joe Nov 2019 #2

Hannity is not the only person on the wrong side of this issue. Hassin Bin Sober Nov 2019 #3

That's true, Sean has his fans. Uncle Joe Nov 2019 #4

Shkreli should NEVER get out of jail. Wishful thinking. oldsoftie Nov 2019 #6

I hear you oldsoftie, Uncle Joe Nov 2019 #8

Great Find! Speaking Of What Fux Won't Cover... corbettkroehler Nov 2019 #5

I just finished reading that thread before I saw this post. Uncle Joe Nov 2019 #7

Interesting... seems it would be good for DP visibility, too. JudyM Nov 2019 #9

I think in comparison to other countries with comparable wealth, Hav Nov 2019 #10

I believe it can be traced to the 40+ year meme Uncle Joe Nov 2019 #11

ritapria

(1,812 posts)

1. Sean is right

Reply to Uncle Joe (Original post)

Thu Nov 28, 2019, 11:07 AM

Nov 2019

I want to pay twice the amount on prescription drugs than the rest of the world pays ……..Big Pharma needs our help ...They only made 100 billion dollars in profits last year ……..As for the elderly people living on Social Security who have to choose between food and their medication ……..Tough Shit ….Sean Insanity

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Uncle Joe

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2. Let us be thankful for the highest drug prices in the world,

Reply to ritapria (Reply #1)

Thu Nov 28, 2019, 11:09 AM

Nov 2019

we're number 1!

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Hassin Bin Sober

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3. Hannity is not the only person on the wrong side of this issue.

Reply to Uncle Joe (Original post)

Thu Nov 28, 2019, 11:13 AM

Nov 2019

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Uncle Joe

(58,366 posts)

4. That's true, Sean has his fans.

Reply to Hassin Bin Sober (Reply #3)

Thu Nov 28, 2019, 11:23 AM

Nov 2019

Martin Shkreli (/ˈʃkrɛli/; born March 17, 1983) is an American businessman, former hedge fund manager, and convicted felon.[7][8] He was the co-founder of the hedge funds Elea Capital, MSMB Capital Management, and MSMB Healthcare;[9] co-founder and former chief executive officer (CEO) of the biotechnology firm Retrophin; and founder and former CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals. Shkreli is the former CEO of start-up software company Gödel Systems, which he founded in August 2016.[10]

In September 2015, Shkreli received widespread criticism when Turing obtained the manufacturing license for the antiparasitic drug Daraprim and raised its price by a factor of 56 (from US$13.5 to $750 per pill), leading him to be referred to by the media as "the most hated man in America" and "Pharma Bro".[11][12][13]

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Shkreli was subpoenaed to appear before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of the U.S. House of Representatives to answer questions about the Daraprim price increase.[11] Shkreli's efforts to quash the subpoena were unsuccessful.[11]

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Shkreli followed his lawyer's advice and refused to answer any questions, except to confirm his name[97][98] – including those related to his acquisition of the most expensive music album ever made[99] – by exercising his Fifth Amendment rights.[100]

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Shkreli

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oldsoftie

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6. Shkreli should NEVER get out of jail. Wishful thinking.

Reply to Uncle Joe (Reply #4)

Thu Nov 28, 2019, 11:27 AM

Nov 2019

I knew who he was years before he became famous. He cost me 300k

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Uncle Joe

(58,366 posts)

8. I hear you oldsoftie,

Reply to oldsoftie (Reply #6)

Thu Nov 28, 2019, 11:36 AM

Nov 2019

but in addition, sociopaths like Shkreli and there are definitely more out there still living free and in power have and are still costing many Americans their very lives.

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corbettkroehler

(1,898 posts)

5. Great Find! Speaking Of What Fux Won't Cover...

Reply to Uncle Joe (Original post)

Thu Nov 28, 2019, 11:27 AM

Nov 2019

On Climate Change, "Younger Republicans Are More Likely To Side With ... Bernie Sanders"

https://www.democraticunderground.com/12964816

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Uncle Joe

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7. I just finished reading that thread before I saw this post.

Reply to corbettkroehler (Reply #5)

Thu Nov 28, 2019, 11:29 AM

Nov 2019

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JudyM

(29,251 posts)

9. Interesting... seems it would be good for DP visibility, too.

Reply to corbettkroehler (Reply #5)

Thu Nov 28, 2019, 12:28 PM

Nov 2019

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Hav

(5,969 posts)

10. I think in comparison to other countries with comparable wealth,

Reply to Uncle Joe (Original post)

Thu Nov 28, 2019, 01:37 PM

Nov 2019

proposing that limit of 200$ on top of your insurance isn't even that unreasonable or anything close to a handout. Your insurance costs already cover at least a part of your drug costs. The scandalous pricing of certain live-saving meds simply has to stop. That would be just the first step but eventually it should lead to a system where we can stop pretending that these proposals are outlandish.

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Uncle Joe

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11. I believe it can be traced to the 40+ year meme

Reply to Hav (Reply #10)

Thu Nov 28, 2019, 01:57 PM

Nov 2019

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that government should be run like a business.

Government is infinitely greater in its' inherent obligations and responsibilities to the American People than any business.

When government is thought of in the same mind as a business, then business has no restraints, everything is about profit (usually short term) and all this comes at the expense of the greater public good or general welfare of the people.

So our life expectancy decreases, our infrastructure goes to waste, poverty increases as cheap labor is cheap by definition, our environment becomes increasingly inhospitable, addictions of all manner increase, these and other societal stresses increase division along any fault line that can be found and exploited by the powers that have a vested interest in keeping the status quo while more people in the "land of the free" are in prison than other any nation on Earth.

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primary today, I would vote for: Undecided

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