HELP Committee Hearing: Pharma Greed
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- LIVE: Taxpayers spent billions to develop a COVID vaccine. Moderna is thanking them by quadrupling the price of the shot. That is unacceptable corporate greed. Moderna’s CEO is testifying NOW in front of the HELP Committee.
Since Reagan's closure of the State Mental Health Hospitals, particularly in colder States like Michigan, we have had a continuing problem with the homeless struggling to find anywhere that is warm enough to stay alive. America has Not yet accepted that health care is a "right" as others have. These homeless, and even many of those who qualify for Medicaid, are Not in a stable enough environment to be filling out the kind of "paperwork" that come so easily to these people wearing suits every day. It's time to overhaul the entire system.
GREED, plain and simple... 😡
CUT THE CORP PHARM GOV RESEARCH CONTRACTS FOR GOUGERS
@Babs Kaz I wish!
I'm a retired/ disabled nurse and I've seen this worsen considerably over the years, to the point where I'm now one of Bernie's "31% of the US population" that can't afford all of my medications. I've had to pick and choose for the last 4 months what is most important... I never imagined I'd end up in this situation. 🙄
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@@lauriebennett6257 You have a horrible insurance policy for being a retired nurse.
Thank you Bernie!!!
For what? It's all lip service to keep you docile. Has he done anything to make your life better? What about his good friend Biden? Has he, or his he too busy cracking jokes about ice cream and hitting on kids while mass shootings continue to increase?!
We need to go back to the income tax rates we had before Reagan lowered it for the 1% and raised taxes eleven times on the middle class, all adjusted for inflation of course.
The GOP don't give a flying F*** about you, but propaganda travels 7 times across the world before anyone hears the truth.
It is trickle up Voodoo economics , let us all call it for what it really is.
@gracieallen8285 We need to charge Big CorP’s their fair share of taxes, cap profits for CorP’s and CEO’s, cap size of CorP’s, take away their tax breaks and incentives!!!!! Then, break-up BIG CorP monopolies including Pharma Insurance, energy and utility companies. Or Boycott BIG CorPs and only use or shop with small businesses! As Big CorP’s are already triple-dipping on taxpayers!
@@Angelina.. corporations paid more before Reagan cut them. We are living with the horrible policies of Reagan.
@babskaz74 Please call it what it actually *IS,* it had been sold to the "stoopid" voters as "trickle" down, even though Reagan and his Handlers always knew it as *"Tinkle* *Down* *Economics".* It never was trickle, it always was and still *IS* *"TINKLE!"* *TINKLE* *DOWN* *ECONOMICS!*
Ronald Reagan and his foolishly obedient followers demonstrated that they Love the idea of "Tinkling" down upon the American People, while making greedy Corporations and their corrupt owners unbelievably rich, while destroying the American middle class.
Thank you, Bernie, for holding these companies accountable
Asking questions isn't "holding them accountable"!!
Thank God there’s Bernie.❤
Bernie is for the people. It’s as clear and as straightforward as that, and we love you, Bernie. And this: Sen. Cassidy doesn’t like the approach, says it’s saying there’s guilt before it’s looked at (I paraphrase). But facts are facts. Bernie states them because they’re true. There is corporate greed and being a physician puts Cassidy on the side of big pharma. I side with Bernie.
Senator Bernie Sanders is among the best political leaders that has ever been voted into office. This is a man who is interested in making average Americans have fair living standards and has done everything in his power to make this happen. Respect to this marvelous icon of fairness and true American liberty. 👍❤
My nephew sent me a text "politicians should be wearing their sponsor's as does race drivers do".
The sad part is that he's not even that impressive from an international perspective... the great US of A is simply so corrupt and economically broken that a regular decent person like him only gets into power once a century.
He’s an absolute idiotic whip boy
Thats why he told his supporters to vote for 2 demons, Hillary and Biden he doesnt care about you and he tried to tell Russians to overthrow their Gov but not Americans to overthrow their evil Gov.
Not only pharma, THEY ARE ALL GREEDY, OIL COMPANIES, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, INSURANCE, CAR MANUFACTURERS, YOU NAME IT, WE HAVE IT, ONLY IN AMERICA SENATOR, DARE THEY DO SUCH IN EUROPE, MANY TRIED AND ALL FAILED AND FINED HEFTY AMOUNTS. ALL LOVE SENATOR.
Oil company net profit margins were mid to low single digits for decades. Refinery margins even less in the low single digits. Their margins went way up after Biden shut down the Keystone XL pipeline.
Big oil doesn't belong in that category. Look at McDonalds with high 20% margins. Or Microsoft. If you want to get ripped off buy a Big Mac. Not gasoline.
I sell in Europe as well.
Glad they're being called out for their profiting off the backs of suffering.
Profiteering should be a dirty word.
I live in Canada, a country far less wealthy and powerful than the United States.
I don't have to pay a single dollar for any of my medications (I am diabetic, adhd, hypothyroid, etc), some of which are life-saving, yet if I walked across the border south into America, I would not be able to afford living.
The question I ask is WHY?
I was one of the first young American children in Washington DC to get her polio vaccination in the early 1950s. The control of of each new epidemic has been accomplished through the use of school regulations and vaccines. Even most people who worked in healthcare were unaware that the last of the facilities caring for the old polio patients only closed down in 2006. I am one of the Americans who has been urging that we transition, like the rest of the World, to some form of Universal Health Care since 1965. Our capitalistic model has encouraged everyone in the system to make the maximum amount of money without giving back their full commitment. I'm the daughter of a patent attorney. I want to see people rewarded for their ingenuity. However, the most inspiring American stories are those where Americans have recognized a problem and addressed it, like Pearl Harbor or the aftermath of the Great Depression. Now, we are still in the period of the aftermath of the Great Grifter. While Americans may have quietly accepted smaller price increases, the French CEO of Moderna has recommended a huge increase in price without Americans already having a UHCS in place. That means that a responsible health care system is Not in place. These vaccines are the key to the successful control of infectious disease. As our society becomes more complex, we can Not afford to become sloppy. I Do expect that the pharmaceuticals will be doing some exciting research in the next several years. Our Congress must position itself firmly and squarely in a place backing both the citizens and the health of the general public for the long term.
Did you know they are giving people polio and small pox to cure cancers now? Crazy huh.
Brave Kathrine. ❤
Unregulated Capitalism is a race to the bottom.
Thank you Senator Sanders!
Bernie's questioning starting at 1:52:34 was very sharp (especially his discussion of "values" at 1:55:55 and bringing up Jonas Salk, Alexander Fleming, and Frederick Banting who voluntarily gave away the intellectual property of their discoveries)
Yes MR Bernie Sanders Thank you for always looking out for the hard working people,Why can't be like Canada,I guess money is the root of All kinds of Evil Greed
We pay more for healthcare because we have to buy our healthcare at the company store and get overpriced low quality healthcare. The reason you have to buy your healthcare at the company store is because Democrats put on wage and price controls in WW2 and companies had to offer healthcare to attract workers. Then Obama in his infinite incompetence codified it into law. It is government intervention in the free market that messed it up. More government intervention will make it WORSE. We need to go back to a competitive free market healthcare system. Competition would drive down prices and drive up the quality of care.
Bernie voted for Obama care and forced people to buy their overpriced healthcare at the company store. Bernie is part of the problem, he will never be part of the solution.
Simply thanks Bernie, thanks...
Bernie is the best president we've never had. I hope the next go-around Joe steps out of the way and Bernie has the opportunity that he so well deserves. The third time is the charm.
Let's goooooooo Bernie bros.
Andrew Yang was a super good option as well.
Not happening. President Biden is going to be the nominee. We need to support him.
@@Repdem
I will support Joe if and when he announces he is going to run again.
I will always support whoever is running on the Democratic ticket.
I will never waste a vote on a write-in
@@lindapietrasz8070
Great.
Thank you, Mr.Sanders
Yesss this is what we need. Thank you Bernie
We need to charge Big CorP’s their fair share of taxes, cap profits for CorP’s and CEO’s, cap size of CorP’s, take away their tax breaks and incentives!!!!! Then, break-up BIG CorP monopolies or fine BIG Pharma, Insurance, energy and utility companies. Or Boycott BIG CorPs and shop with only small businesses! As BIG CorP’s are already triple-dipping on taxpayers!
Thank's Bernie for all you do . . .
CASSIDY IS ALWAYS AVAILABLE TO PRESENT A DEFENSE FOR THE .01% AND PRICE GOUGING. THE QUESTION, CASSIDY, IS NOT MAKING A PROFIT BUT RATHER OVERDOING IT IN THE HEALTH INDUSTRY SO THAT PEOPLE CANNOT GET TREATMENT.
God I love you Bern, my handle says it all.
GO BERNIE, GO!! ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽
Bernie Sanders 2024😊😊😊 keep up the good fight
Go Bernie! Can you believe how hard he works? A true patriot. Senator Cassidy is well paid, and stuck there.
Senator Cassidy has his sights on killing Social Security. By Deception. . . .
Thank you for posting this Bernie. Been hard to find a unbiased cut of this
keep fighting the good fight
Thank you Bernie. You should be President!
sorry?! capitalism is the reason why we had several vaccines?! on the contrary, the only reason why we were able to do this is that we the people subsidized the research and development. sen. cassidy needs to actually use that logic he claims to exercise. virtually all of our scientific advances have been the result of social spending not capitalism.
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Not an american. What do you mean by social spending?
Do you mean the government in your country uses public funds to subsidize "scientific advances"?
@@santaclaus120 yes... most scientific and technological advances we enjoy today have been funded mostly by public funding through government funds. we actually have organizations that do specifically that. usa is a welfare state for the rich corporations. research is funded mostly by public funding and monetized by corporations. this is why the rich are getting richer and the rest of us are poorer. huge transfer of wealth from most of us to the richest. hence the popularity of bernie.
Socializing the losses, privatizing the profits.
@@Repdem 👍
Abolish all taxpayer paid billion dollar subsidies given to these greedy, pharmaceutical corporations and fine them a minimum of $10 million dollars for their disgusting profiteering off of us hard working taxpayers.
No, no. Force regulation to regulate their greed but financing health programs is absolutely ok.
Get universal healthcare!
Still feeling the Bern in 2023
Thank you, Sentor Sanders. You're the conscience of America, in the room. Your final question sumed the whole session up.
1:03:39 even Mike Braun (one of the most right-wing Republican senators) agrees with Bernie. bipartisanship!
THE FRENCH GHOUL SAYS THAT HE NEEDS TO QUADRUPLE THE PRICE TO PAY FOR THE TECHNOLOGY. THE PROBLEM IS IT ALSO GETS AN OBSCENE AMOUNT OF PROFITS OVER AND ABOVE THOSE COSTS.
The real problem is that it has already been paid for.. . . It’s all gravy now.$$$$$$$$
Bernie Sanders for President in 2024
THANK YOU GOD FOR BERNI SANDERS
Bernie is the only person who cares about the common person living on a fixed income who can’t afford the high priced new meds. Thank you Bernie!👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
NO MENTION MADE ABOUT THE OUTRAGEOUS FACT MEDICARE HAS BEEN PROHIBITED FROM NEGOTIATING PHARMA PRICES FOR ALL (NOT SOME) PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS THAT MEDICARE PURCHASES FOR ITS INSURED SENIORS. SHAMELESS
He mentions it in other videos
When you scream it's because your words are worthless on their own. You need to provide evidence for your claim.
Exactly, NIH needs a tighter control on the ownership of any drug developed with tax payer money and NIH scientist help. A return on investment does not mean rip off the government and the people.
I'm an American veteran who has benefitted by the Moderna vaccine. And I say this. As regards the prevalence of greed exhibited in the pharmaceutical industry, we might also proffer that if there lived as many American citizens who aspire to become ethical politicians as are rhetoricians who complain about the lack thereof, we would maybe, just maybe behold a nation living in better health and favor.
Indeed, we grouse so much about the failing of politicians but fail to see that having and nurturing Politics and astute politicians prove a necessary evil to develop and sustain, those who like Senator Bernie Sanders are willing to argue on behalf of the poor and infirm more than on undertaking to uphold greed-smitten habits, the likes of which are so exhibited in the health markets and institutes today in the U.S.A.
Notice that the CEO himself for Moderna is a man of foreign origin, who could not do in his own respective country what he 'could' do in -- and only in -- a setting like that of the U.S.A., that is, to ply his trade in the very nation whose sense of the world was the benefactor that allowed him the opportunity to manifest in the first place, ay a man whose skill set could not have been availed or presumed to manifest in his own country but 'could' be availed by the opportunity that the U.S.A. affords.
Is this not ironic or worse, is this not as well a failure on the part of some of us who fail to see the merits of honing a supreme grasp of ethics and pronounced acumen for Politics? This all falls to the many, not the one, which is to say, the likes of Moderna needs to change, and citizens, to participate.
Indeed, more needs to be done by the many, not just those companies for whom our objectives demand that they "do the right thing." Point is, they won't in and of themselves. Such reason is why there needs to be a consequential phalanx of those who wield statecraft, ay politicians who bear a fine and detecting instinct.
Bernie speaking such facts. Thanks for calling out the stock buy backs. He had no good rebuttle for that one.
They tell me corporations are people. People can be prosecuted and jailed for extortion.
these people HAVE no shame and have to be regulated period! They don't care about people / only PROFIT! Time to get profit OUT of health care.
THE REPUBLICAN GHOUL FROM ALABAMA IS THANKFUL TO MODERNA BECAUSE IT HAS SAVED LIVES. WITH THE QUADRUPLED PRICE, IT WILL NOT SAVE THE LIVES OF THOSE WHO CANNOT PAY THE GOUGED PRICE.
CASSIDY IS WORRIED ABOUT IRRITATING MODERNA IN THE FUTURE. CASSIDY, DO NOT WORRY ABOUT THAT. MODERNA CAN DO WITH SOME HOSTILITY FOR PRICE GOUGING BECAUSE, EVEN IF THEY DO NOT PRICE GOUGE, MODERNA HAS ALREADY GOTTEN AWAY WITH MORE MONEY THAT THEY EVER DREAMED OF. RELAX, CASSIDY
WHY WAS MODERNA FOUNDED IN MASACHUSSETTS AND NOT IN EUROPE? THERE IS NO COUNTRY LIKE THIS COUNTRY FOR PRICE GOUGING IN A HUGE MARKET.
Love ya Bernie
We love you Bernie!❤
THERE IS NO COMPETITION IN BIG PHARMA. IT IS A MONOPOLY OR AT BEST AND OLIGOPOLY THAT IS WELL POSITIONED TO PRICE GOUGE. PRICE CONTROLS AND WINDFALL PROFITS TAX SHOULD APPLY TO PHARMA AND ENERGY. FULL STOP
It's not complicated, it's corruption!
~ Marianne Williamson
We the people need to get off our behinds and help people with pets too cover pets bill's like our plans are too so ours pets don't stuffer because we don't have another money to cover our hospitals bill's or veterinarian bills too.
Socialism for corporations seems to work for republicans just not for people 😢
The way to fix this problem Bernie Sanders has to shed his ties to any party and run for President in 2024 as an independent third party. You can bluntly see the greed from the pharmaceutical industry and those polotitions that are paid off by big pharma. We need President Sander.
Who was fiddling with the damn mixing board? The volume kept cutting out!
Edit: You can turn on live captions to read those quiet parts!
Good question. It surely was aggravating and certainly wasn't appropriate at this level of an important governmental hearing. I'm glad another poster on down this list also commented.
All during the 40-80's these corporate goons were screaming about 'government bureaucracy and bloat', only to totally eclipse the concept when they finally get their own power thanks to spending oodles of money on the people in government with less heart than Bernie Sanders, those that actually represent that bureaucratic garbage. They also complained about socialism though, and it is their workers that all wear the same thing, and punch in and out at the same times according to their rules....getting the same low paychecks...corporate America and the global groups of greed are truly gross creatures.
Fact, Senetor Cassidy, If My taxes paid to develop a medication, and the cost of producing that medication has not increased, and the company is going to triple the cost of the product that my taxes funded for and exorbitant profit hike, then yes, there is greed at the very core of this. You should be ashamed to even mention you were a provider, but it isn't surprising. Med schools screen and groom. Loss of humility and humanity is expected.
Most doctors are Republicans. They despise patients and their priorities are maximizing income, spending as little time and effort as possible and keeping their butts covered.
They buy legislation to serve their goals.
Get Em Bernie! :)
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How can I connect to the Senator’s office for recommendations, for a real response?
What senator?
Google it & call or email. Come on bot. Let’s go!
@@professorx4475 I’m not a bot. I’m trying to get a REAL response. 😏😡
Where is the outrage from other politicians in the past years?
😊yay Bernie!!!
We need to nationalize the pharmaceutical industry, energy, water, rail, internet, etc.
I love the way he says "huge." *UGE*
Why aren't companies giving employees heathcare or even s discount for medications. A Healthy employee shows up for work.
Because they’re all the same. Greedy. The love of money is the root of all evil. Hence these corporations exploiting, manipulating, enslaving and making profits off the backs of their hard working employees and growing wealthier. While our own income stagnates and decreases. Stealing our money and layoffs. I’m so done with all their shiz!; and happy I retired at 60 free of debt and left the rat race workforce in 2021. This fiat system is all a trap to steal our money and rigged in favor of the wealthy. Their consumer marketing schemes/traps: mortgages, car loans, school loans, etc. won’t work on me. I don’t need their shiz!. It’s simple. If I don’t have the cash to buy it. I won’t. Zero debt=Freedom!. As a family of retirees in these uncertain, manufactured(for corporate monsters’ record profits) inflations and trying times, we’re blessed and living comfortably. Praise God!. This is true wealth. So no worries or fears here. Fear is the Devil’s playground. I trust and focus on God. Walk by Faith. Not by sight.
Ehere is medicare for all. Could save $$ across everyone. All citizens a family cost and idivisual plan. Run it like Social Security. Government could control all costs than.
Brilliant. Bernie rocks
Its not only greed of the corporations its the senitors that dont make laws to prevent them from asking you to pay that much. Its you're laws that gives them that power, i mean everything in the us is about money you cant even go to the hospital without going bankrupt
Great show Bernie❤ and all the other senators that help. I'm a little bit of topic but need to say the amount of lobbyists is atrocious, we all want something done. We have 1800 of some of the worst. We should be 72 and we are almost 1800!! We need help Bernie how do we do it❤❤ thanks again for the big B
Bernie Sanders 👍💪👏
Get off of the "Corporate Greed" BS and go the the real cause - the failure of politicians to regulate corporations.
Money-in-Politics is The Cause;
Everything else is a Symptom.
If there wasn’t corporate greed you wouldn’t be asking Senators to reel them in
If corporations lobby for deregulation and donate to politicians to deregulate or push their own policies, then why would they regulate them? Corporate greed fuels the deregulation. They both go hand in hand. You are saying that corporate greed is BS, but it is precisely why money in politics exists. Greed is the root not money in politics. Most politicians don’t run on ethics and morality. Vote in politicians with ethics and real policy like Senator Sanders and you will see REAL change. You cannot expect capitalism to be regulated when it’s the driver in politics and propagandized as the only solution. We need a balanced system with a combination of views. Social capitalism based on democratic values. Capitalism has to be regulated otherwise money in politics will remain a problem. Citizen’s United must be repealed to start this process.
@@frederickdavila1070
Unregulated Capitalism is a race to the bottom.
Bernie you're the only one in Washington that matters
Get them for me!
GOOD MORNING AMERICA
This makes me 😫
Socializing losses, privatizing the profits.
BERNIE SANDERS 2024
Cassidy is such a weasel
Thank you
Them pharma boys is more greedy then them big oil and gas guys
Let's also talk about the Catholic Church gobbling up hospitals, then dictating what Doctors can and can't do because the Catholic church doesn't agree with it such as talk about end of life choices or adhering to patient medical directives because they don't agree.
Bernie "I never sold out" Sanders.
This is not to demonize Capitalism but to demonize greed. Let's level the playing field.
Ok, who's in charge of the audio over there?! It'd be nice to actually hear the testimony without the audio dropping out and fluctuating all over the place.
I’m one of those who cannot afford my prescription, even with insurance.
How does this not even have 10 k views.
To. Much. Conflict. Of. Intrest
Make it top shelf.
As he rubs his nose, bet ya he's got stock
Your money or your life. Too much profit is poison.
The invisible hand of the market neutrally closes into a fist unless acted upon by a force. A force like Collective Bargaining. And a big ol' democratic government is the biggest strongest Collective Bargaining tool in the land. Unionize out from under, voter local/state/federal over the top. Participate.
The taxpayers give to these companies yearly.
My dog got a tumor on his left front paw and the vet wants to remove the tumor for the price of 1,500.00 that's more then we make in ssi or ssda or fscash , please help us people with pets bill's and we have no children and I am saying please give Extra money for people with no children only pets Etc thx u
these pharmaceutical products shouldn't even be on the market in the first place, much less mandated
NEGOTIATE DISTRIBUTION CONTRACTS REQUIRES QUADRUPLING THE PRICE? BULLSHIT. THAT WILL TAKE A FEW MILLION SPENT ON LAWFIRMS, BOT BILLIONS FLOWING FROM QUADRUPLING THE PRICE.
It took more than two people!!
@ congress!
Bern baby Bern!
Sounds good!!
cassidy WERE DA FACTS ha
Tear them down.
Britain's socialised medicine produced Astro- zenica