Sen. Bernie Sanders blasted 13 Senate Democrats for lacking the “guts” to stand up to the pharmaceutical industry after they voted against a measure he pushed to help drive down drug costs by importing them from Canada. A dozen Republicans voted in favor.
“The Democratic Party are not going to win elections until they do right by the American people.
The measure by
Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and Sanders would have allowed pharmaceutical distributors and pharmacists to import low-cost medicine from Canada and other countries. That is lacking in the Open Market Condition that we talk about it all the time.
Democratic Sens. Michael
Bennet - Co,
Bob Menendez and
Cory Booker -NJ,
Maria Cantwell and
Patty Murray -WA,
Tom Carper and
Chris Coons- DE, Bob Casey PA,
Joe Donnelly- IN,
Martin Heinrich -NM,
Heidi Heitkamp -ND,
Jon Tester -MO and
Mark Warner - VA all voted against it.
Sanders said “If we can import vegetables and fish and poultry and beef from all corners of the Earth, please don’t tell me that we cannot bring in, from Canada and other major countries, name brand prescription drugs of some of the largest corporations in the world,” he said. “That’s a laughable statement.”
So, here ya go, the democrats are defeating themselves.
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