The manufacturer of Vanta has taken it off the market and replaced it with a different version costing 7x as much.
The cause of this is one party has a policy of selling out all it's votes to pharma. The some party that is most supported by the older patients most adversely effected by bad pharma behavior.
NPR: Drug company drops its cheaper hormone-blocking drug, keeps pricier one : Shots - Health News.
Hard to believe Big Pharma hasn't locked up both parties. This c ould have been part of Obamacare otherwise.
One party has an ideology that supports freedom of corporations to behave in this manner one has an ideology that is contra to that.
When someone tells you who they are, believe them.
Yes, politicians can be equal opportunity opportunists. It has been reported that Big Pharma gave about $14 million ahead of 2020 elections, and contributions were almost evenly split between major political parties: $7.1 million went to Republicans, and $6.6 million went to Democrats.
Are you saying it makes no difference, so keep voting for the people responsible for this situation?
You know we get the government we deserve.
I am saying contributions were almost evenly split between the two major political parties. I am not saying there are no differences between the parties.
But there is a similarity: the corrupting influence of money, and the pressure from the party machinery to keep and consolidate power by whatever means are required. Regardless of differing ideologies, the two parties of the duopoly are largely about power and money (even if many individuals within these parties are not).
As you know, under "the government we deserve," most legislation is not actually written by legislators; it is written by "aides." And many aides from both parties are lobbyists at heart, living in the revolving door that connects the public and private sectors. Case in point: Liz Fowler.
So you are rationalizing, that we just keep voting as we have been?
Do I have that right?
No, you don't have that right. My comments are observations of how the system works (or more accurately, does NOT work). I am not making a statement on voting.
But one conclusion from those observations might be not that we all just keep voting as we have been, but that NONE of us do... and we all vote for candidates that do not carry an "R" or a "D" in front of their names (and thus vote for candidates that are not vetted by the party machinery, and not beholden to it).
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