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Pages tagged "Health"


Report outlines public option for prescription drugs, outflanking Big Pharma

Posted on Home by woody woodruff · September 18, 2019 3:07 PM

healthcare_not_wealthcare.jpgWe’ve heard a good deal of discussion about a public option in the healthcare system – the option that was too politically hard to wedge into the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare).

Here’s a proposed public option for production and sale of prescription drugs – one that could very well ratchet down the prices of drugs from the grasping, pill-pushing Big Pharma, star attraction in the Wall Street Casino.

A new report published this week by The Democracy Collaborative proposes the creation of a public pharmaceutical industry as an alternative to privately owned drug companies, which are focused on the pursuit of profit at the expense of the needs of patients and communities.



 

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MOTION TO PROCEED ON HEALTHCARE DEBATE NARROWLY PASSES IN SENATE

Posted on Blog by Beth Landry · July 25, 2017 5:05 PM

 

Official statement: MOTION TO PROCEED ON HEALTHCARE DEBATE NARROWLY PASSES IN SENATE

Statement of Beth Landry, Healthcare Organizer for Progressive Maryland, on this afternoon's Senate vote passing a motion to proceed on healthcare debate.

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