I owe an apology to Sanders people.

[Le Gaucher]

The moment Bernie Sanders lost me was during a debate when he was asked to comment on the opiate epidemic and he launched into a tirade against pharmaceutical companies. I did not believe that pharmaceuticals were involved actively in pushing drugs to create a class of addicted patients.. I concluded that BS was a crazy guy.

I stand corrected. Looks like they are bastards in the vein of Medellin and Cali Cartel, albeit with more sophisticated methods and never having to worry about laundering their loot.

[MattP]

1. It passed without objection in the Senate and the House

Nobody in the congress looks good on this. Holder comes out clean and that's about it

[Nanjeanne]

2. Yeah - Sanders isn't as crazy as he looks! Been right in retrospect about lots of things.

[ananda]

3. Sanders is almost always right.

He understands how corporations work and tries
to speak out for a people-first platform.

[left-of-center2012]

4. So ...

Benie's not the loathsome creature some portray him to be.

[Sunlei]

5. no worries, you've started posting Mar 21, 2017. Bernies always said Drug Corps are out of control.

[Caliman73]

6. Whenever profit is the motive, without regulations, things can go bad quickly and in major ways.

You should watch "The Corporation". It goes into some pretty good detail about the corporate structure, the profit motive, and what some of the larger corporations do to keep on top.

Not all corporations are evil, in fact, the argument is that they are not necessarily evil, but they are amoral. They operate on the predication that they must do everything in their power to be profitable. Unfortunately, many of those practices used to generate profit involve activities that are harmful to society.

This idea was around way before Sanders.

[Donkees]

7. 'Nine Million Oxy Pills To One Pharmacy In a Town Of 392 People in West Virginia ...'

Sanders Calls for Investigation of Big Pharma Drug Pushers Over Shocking New Report
From 2007-2012, the Big Three wholesalers earned a combined $17 billion while they collectively shipped 423 million pain pills to West Virginia

Excerpt:
Drug-pushing, multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical companies should be "investigated and prosecuted," declared Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in response to revelations that out-of-state drug wholesalers have been pouring highly-addictive and lethal opioids into rural West Virginia towns, reaping profits while countless suffer.

According to "previously confidential drug shipping sales records sent by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey's office," and obtained by the Gazette-Mail, "drug wholesalers showered the state with 780 million hydrocodone and oxycodone pills" over a six-year period. At the same time, "1,728 West Virginians fatally overdosed on those two painkillers."

"The unfettered shipments amount to 433 pain pills for every man, woman, and child in West Virginia," Eyre notes.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/12/20/sanders-calls-investigation-big-pharma-drug-pushers-over-shocking-new-report

[progressoid]

8. Holy shit.

[disillusioned73]

9. I heard about the 60 minutes report..

( am assuming this is what this op was about) haven't had a chance to see it yet.. sound interesting & disturbing - but MSM will find a way to ignore it since every other commercial on the big networks these days are for some kind of pill or another.. sickening

[mountain grammy]

12. Yes it is sickening.

[Rhiannon12866]

13. If you want to see it, here's the link:

Ex-DEA agent: Opioid crisis fueled by drug industry and Congress

Whistleblower Joe Rannazzisi says drug distributors pumped opioids into U.S. communities -- knowing that people were dying -- and says industry lobbyists and Congress derailed the DEA's efforts to stop it

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ex-dea-agent-opioid-crisis-fueled-by-drug-industry-and-congress/

[disillusioned73]

14. Thanks..

[Corvo Bianco]

10. While it's great that you recognize big Pharma is out of control,

That's not exactly his defining moment.

[waltben]

11. Thank you!