Steve Ricchetti, Vice President Biden’s chief of staff from 2013 to 2017, has an inside track on this critical gatekeeper position. He’s a former pharma lobbyist.
Big Pharma
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Big Pharma’s Game of Control
Instead of fixing your underlying health challenges, Big Pharma wants you popping their latest pill.
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Trump’s ‘America First’ Vaccine Agenda May Leave Us Last
By using the usual patent monopoly framework rather than international open-source collaboration, the coronavirus vaccine may prove both elusive and more costly for Americans.
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A Tale of Two Vaccines
There is no reason for the private vaccine industry to exist.
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Biden Sides With Big Pharma Against Affordable Coronavirus Vaccine Plan
Unlike Sanders and other Democrats, Joe Biden has not embraced a key executive authority: cutting the cost of a possible coronavirus vaccine and other pharmaceuticals developed with federal research dollars.
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The Trump Administration’s Contemptuous, Pro-Corporate Response to Coronavirus
The incompetence and greed of this administration could now literally cost many Americans their lives in a major public-health crisis.
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Behind the Coronavirus Threat, a Middleman Destroying Prescription Drug Markets
Group purchasing organizations (GPOs) have driven many of the generic drug manufacturers out of business, and pushed those remaining to locate factories in China, ground zero for the epidemic.
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Pharma-Funded ‘Dark Money’ Group Hosts House Staffers for California Junket
The staffers, several of whom work for reps on the subcommittee overseeing pharmaceuticals, met with executives from drug companies Merck and Genentech.
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Mother of Insulin Victim on Pelosi’s Drug Price Bill: ‘It Wouldn’t Have Saved My Son’s Life’
The Lower Drug Costs Now Act, with its critical gaps and questionable strategy, is a microcosm of how House Democratic leaders have done policy all year.
