Blocking Medicare from negotiating prescription drug prices have cost taxpayers over $25 BILLION.
Here are the savings we lost per drug:
Lantus: $9.2B
Humira: $6.1B
NovoLog: $2.9B
Enbrel: $2.3B
Lyrica: $1.8B
Imbruvica: $1.6B
Sensipar: $948M
Big Pharma is ripping us all off.
https://twitter.com/Public_Citizen
Drug companies have increased the prices of over 800 drugs this year. And nobody is stopping them.
Has Big Pharma bought off your member of Congress?
Want to call them and find out?
We’re flooding Congress with calls today & demanding action to lower drug prices: 888-981-9704
Billionaire wealth gains during the pandemic:
Musk: $150,800,000,000
Bezos: $75,000,000,000
Zuckerberg: $74,200,000,000
Buffett: $37,500,000,000
Gates: $32,600,000,000
Billionaires won’t save us. Let’s pass the Build Back Better Act to tax the rich.
#RewardWorkNotWealth
Elon Musks’s wealth in 2020: $24,600,000,000
Elon Musk’s wealth in 2021: $175,400,000,000
That’s a 613% increase.
Meanwhile, an additional 31 million people globally have been pushed into poverty.
Wealth inequality is a death sentence.
F^cking Dems ran on removing Student Debt and won but still haven’t done it.
Advocates are pressuring @POTUS @JoeBiden to fix the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (#PSLF) program designed to help teachers, nurses, military service members, and other public servants.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamminsky/2021/09/23/biden-urged-to-fix-public-service-loan-forgiveness-by-automatically-wiping-out-the-debt-of-public-servants/
State Sen. Manny Díaz accused of inappropriate behavior as Hialeah-Miami Lakes teacher
Molina’s allegations first became public on Friday, when she tweeted that she and her former high school classmates remember Díaz as a “pervert and inappropriate teacher” who she said would openly talk about doing ecstasy at Miami clubs.Díaz, 47, taught social studies for four years at Hialeah-Miami Lakes beginning in 1995. He also spent two years as an assistant principal.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/education/article248473235.html