Hillary Clinton's Plan To Control Prescription Drug Prices [VIDEO]: New Ad Targets Insurance Compan

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Source: ibtimes.com




By Elizabeth Whitman


November 21 2015 5:05 PM EST





Hillary Clinton
A new ad by U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton released Saturday targets pharmaceutical companies for increasing the cost of prescription drugs. Here, Clinton prepares to register as a candidate for the South Carolina primary after her speech at the annual Blue Jamboree in the Lowcountry in North Charleston, South Carolina, Nov. 21, 2015. Reuters/Randall Hill

A new ad for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, released by her campaign Saturday, set its sights on insurance companies by highlighting Clinton's efforts to improve healthcare for Americans and bring down the cost of drugs. The ad is airing in New Hampshire and Iowa, STAT reported.

"Something is wrong with our healthcare system, and it needs to be fixed," a younger version of Clinton says in the first half of the 30-second ad. Fast forward to today, and the fight to improve healthcare is about preventing Republicans from repealing the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, and "about ... taking on insurance companies to bring down drug prices," the narrator says. You can watch the ad below..............



But other elements of her approach do not target insurance companies quite so directly. She also vowed to put caps on prescription drug costs for Americans with chronic health conditions -- something that would affect drug companies nonetheless -- and to increase competition for prescription drugs, including specialty ones like biologics, and allow drugs to be imported into the U.S. from abroad...............

Read more: http://www.ibtimes.com/hillary-clintons-plan-control-prescription-drug-prices-video-new-ad-targets-insurance-2195113

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1. Typical HRC - A Token Approach - Sounds Good - Accomplishes Nothing

Since Corporations Routinely Hide Profits

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2. I especially like this part as chronic health costs are a burden to folks on fixed incomes and

hope she can help them. --and several folks I know.

......But other elements of her approach do not target insurance companies quite so directly. She also vowed to put caps on prescription drug costs for Americans with chronic health conditions -- something that would affect drug companies nonetheless -- and to increase competition for prescription drugs, including specialty ones like biologics, and allow drugs to be imported into the U.S. from abroad.

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3. What Congress Is Going To Place "Price Controls" On Their 1% Contributors

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6. Hillary has had to negotiate with the best of them--world wide. It will will be done

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7. Keep Dreaming The Impossible Dream - The People Know Better

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8. Yes, people know better--per the polls who vote for Hillary -state after state.

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9. People Know Better That HRC Is Flawed - Out To Win The Presidency For Herself And No Other

Wiling to say and do anything to win - just like 2008.

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10. Bullshit. Hillary has been fighting for the poor her entire adult life.

In 1972, when a young Hillary and Bill Clinton were working the ill-fated George McGovern campaign, she worked closely with well-respected union leader, Franklin Garcia, who took her under his wing as she helped register Latino voters in south Texas and along the Rio Grande Valley.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/adriancarrasquillo/hillary-clinton-has-deep-history-with-latinos-and-theres-not#.jdqM3ajE3

And what was Bernie doing in 1972? Oh yeah, penning this unhinged rape fantasy screed:



http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/05/young-bernie-sanders-liberty-union-vermont

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11. HRC Herself Admits She Is Bought And Paid For By The 1% - See The Last Debate

Wherein she defends Wall Street - Defeats the claim that she is working for the huddled masses.

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12. No, she didn't. She said, as Senator, she represented NY, which includes Wall Street.

She did not "defend" Wall Street, she was explaining why they support her. She got $21 Billion to rebuild New York after 9/11. That helped Wall Street, it helped New York. And it especially help first responders, who have this to say about Hillary:

Then New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton was instrumental in obtaining $21 billion for New York City in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, working alongside New York’s Senior Senator Charles Schumer. Clinton also took a leading role in investigating the health issues faced by 9/11 first responders, ultimately winning the first federal appropriations for medical monitoring of 9/11 Responders. This funding laid the groundwork for future appropriations and the expanded Medical Monitoring and Treatment Program to come. Without Clinton’s early efforts on behalf of 9/11 Responders, the 9/11 Health and Compensation Act as we know it may not have been possible.

http://www.renew911health.org/allies/

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13. Sure She Did - From Where Did HRC Receive Campaign Contributions - Money Did Not Fall From The Sky

Politicians always help those that paid their way. For HRC that is Wall Street.

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14. As she said at the debate, 60% of her donors are women. nt

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16. Maybe - But That Is Not 60% Of The Money

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4. Perhaps getting congressional members out of the grips of the pharmacy and

Insurance companies then we could perhaps get our drugs at the prices charged around the world except for the USA. Once the members starts voting in a certain way it never stops.

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5. Big Pharma and Big Insurance are actually working together in the most historic rip off of the

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American people. The Carnegie's, Melons, Dupont's of the nineteenth century would die of envy at the genius and ingenuity of the Pharm/Insurance racket of today

US Pharmas try to paint this as a way of arguing that 'socialistic' health care kills innovation.

In fact US Pharmas recirculate legacy drugs through the FDA by re purposing existing legacy drugs for new treatments. There are in fact an astonishingly few new drugs that have been developed in the last thirty years.

Big Pharm is trying to bankrupt Canadian public ally funded health care by over charging on drug prices The most current drugs are too expensive and are dined coverage under the Pharmcare

US insurance companies use this a way of attacking Universal Health care in Canada

Under Harper they would have succeeded. Under Trudeau they will have to settle for screaming into their pillows

Unfortunately Americans are fucked by the second biggest gangster racket in the last century

The largest increase in cost to the Canadian Healthcare system is DRUG COSTS BY AMERICAN DRUG COMPANIES

I capitalized American companies only because the major drug companies are based in Switzerland but the majority shareholders are American banks and corps

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15. She's their huckleberry.

wink wink nudge nudge

Clinton tops 2016 field in drug industry donations
link: http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/257234-clinton-brings-in-most-big-pharma-money-of-2016-field

Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton has received more campaign cash from drug companies than any candidate in either party, even as she proudly declares the industry is one of her biggest enemies.

Clinton accepted $164,315 in the first six months of the campaign from drug companies, far more than the rest of the 2016 field, according to an analysis by Stat News.

Cash from drug companies poured in despite Clinton’s tough public stance on the industry. Last month, she unveiled a plan to combat rising drug prices by clamping down on the rules for pharmaceuticals. In last week’s Democratic debate, she listed off drug companies among the enemies she is most proud to have made in politics.

Clinton has taken a harder stance on drug companies than any other candidate besides Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who has also skewered “Big Pharma” as he seeks the Democratic nomination.

This week, Sanders rejected a $2,700 contribution from Martin Shkreli, the now-infamous CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, which hiked prices for a life-saving drug by 4,000 percent overnight.

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