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Drug Company Execs Can’t Justify Price Markups & Energy Company Caused Deadliest California Wildfire

Apr 9, 2020

The Ring of Fire

Via America’s Lawyer: Drug company executives were hauled before the Senate to explain while the, why are they gouging American citizens on the cost of their medications. Mike Papantonio and Trial Magazine Executive Editor Farron Cousins discuss. Plus, RT Correspondent Brigida Santos joins Mike Papantonio to talk about PG&E, and how they finally acknowledged their equipment was likely the cause for the deadliest wildfire in California history.

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Last week, drug company executives were hauled before the Senate to explain while the, why are they gouging American citizens on the cost of their medications and it didn't go well for those executives. Finally, finally, somebody starts asking these people, let me get this right. We got two thousand, ten thousand, twenty thousand percent markup on your drugs and you're telling us it's because R and D, that's a lie because these drugs had been on the market forever and you're still rise raising the prices. You know what, this calls attention to both the corporate Republicans and the corporate Democrats because the corporate Democrats are as much of the problem as the corporate Republicans. Take it from there.

Well, and the reason they're as much of the problem is because Big Pharma tends to spread their money out almost evenly. Republicans get a little bit more, but it's statistically insignificant. So they bought both sides. But here's an interesting thing because yes, all of these executives said well R and D is so expensive. We spend a lot of money. There was not one single drug between the year 2010 and 2016 approved by the FDA that was not funded and developed without taxpayer money. Every drug from 2010 to 2016 that was approved.

Explain how that works and universities, go ahead and talk about that.

You know, taxpayers, we fund the universities. The government itself hires out scientists to do this research. We have government funded scientists and every drug from 2010 to 2016 was paid for and developed with tax dollars.

Taxpayer money.

And they're lying. They're lying to us.

So here's the, here's the real numbers on it. 75% of the money that they're saying is actually for R and D actually is for advertising.

Right.

It's all these ads that you see every 10 seconds on the air. That's where the money's going. And now what I love about this right now, first of all, I'm not optimistic that much will come out of it. This is all a show. This is show. They're going to appear in front of these congressmen and the Congress going to ask them a few tough questions, and you're only going to have a couple of people like Ron Wyden who actually does anything about it. You're going to have Cory Booker's and the Feinstein's. You're gonna have all those people that say, ah, you know, it's, let's give them a break. They won't say that overtly, but that's what they'll do behind closed doors. Farron, thanks for joining us.

Thank you very much.

Pacific Gas and Electric has finally acknowledged that it's equipment likely caused the deadliest wildfire in California history. RT correspondent Brigida Santos joins me now with that story. Brigida, inspections of PG&E's transmission lines identified equipment that should have been repaired. It should have been replaced years ago. Why didn't they do that? Why didn't they take the steps to fix the problem before, before it became this catastrophe?

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