Senate GOP Introduce Bill Preventing Medicare from Negotiating Drug Prices

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

The government has to negotiate drug prices because it is a captured market. Its not like some luxury item you can just "do without" to bring prices down. You have to buy it, and so they can charge whatever price they want, which in turn prices people out of the market and into the grave yard.

If a competitive market is already impossible, you are not "restoring the private market by removing the price controls", you are restoring the capture market by removing any forces operating against the inflationary pressures on the price.

This is where blind adherence to market liberalism/lassiez faire, just leads to a corporatist monopoly outcome, which is also by definition not a free market either.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

https://www.kff.org/health-costs/poll-finding/kff-health-tracking-poll-may-2021

Overall, nearly nine in ten (88%) favor allowing the federal government to negotiate for lower prices on medications, including three-fourths (77%) of Republicans, nine in ten independents (89%) and 96% of Democrats.

Why don't those Republicans grow a pair then and run for Congress rather than keep voting for the same puppets because they have an R by their name and bellyaching that nobody cares about them.

Culture determines voting patterns, but economic interests govern policies. In the Republican Party, donors are more powerful than voters, so the economic policies of the donors wins out. Its also not just the donors, but the combination of donors, consultants, corporate media and such forth that enforces a rigid adherence to neoliberal economic policies, even though a large number of voters would seemingly be supportive of government action in select areas.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Culture determines voting patterns, but economic interests govern policies. In the Republican Party, donors are more powerful than voters, so the economic policies of the donors wins out. Its also not just the donors, but the combination of donors, consultants, corporate media and such forth that enforces a rigid adherence to neoliberal economic policies, even though a large number of voters would seemingly be supportive of government action in select areas.

Have you seen that YouTube gritter Infrared and his #MAGACommunism? Of course, he really doesn't understand Communism and thinks it's just the Great Society, but he gets a lot of responses from Trumpers.

https://talkelections.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=523306.0

There are like maybe five or six things in there I might consider supporting, the rest of it is nuts or goes too far.