Elizabeth Warren HQ: She's Got A Plan!

[Broke Wave]

@King Kreole explain yourself

 

[King Kreole]

@King Kreole explain yourself

For a long time I boasted that I was master of all possible landscapes-- and I thought the great figures of modern painting and poetry were laughable. What I liked were: absurd paintings, pictures over doorways, stage sets, carnival backdrops, billboards, bright-colored prints, old-fashioned literature, church Latin, erotic books full of misspellings, the kind of novels our grandmothers read, fairy tales, little children's books, old operas, silly old songs, the naive rhythms of country rimes. I dreamed of Crusades, voyages of discovery that nobody had heard of, republics without histories, religious wars stamped out, revolutions in morals, movements of races and continents; I used to believe in every kind of magic. I invented colors for the vowels! A black, E white, I red, O blue, U green. I made rules for the form and movement of every consonant, and I boasted of inventing, with rhythms from within me, a kind of poetry that all the senses, sooner or later, would recognize. And I alone would be its translator. I began it as an investigation. I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.

 

[King Kreole]

 

[intra vires]

 

[the cac mamba]

she really needs to stay in the senate

 

[Secure Da Bag]

Skip GO to Socialism and collect your Communist Drugs. I'm okay with a Government Pharmaceutical company competing with private pharmaceutical companies. But wholesale take the whole generic drugs market over? Yeah, I dunno.


EDIT: Now that I've read the article. This might not be that bad. Might.

“Sanders-Khanna and Warren-Schakowsky are two absolutely complementary bills,” said Alex Lawson of Social Security Works, who has worked extensively on drug prices and was involved in both efforts. “It’s important that you’re seeing multiple, transformative big ideas.”

The Sanders-led legislation seeks to reform the monopoly patent system for prescription drugs, which virtually assures high prices and incentivizes the exclusive drugmaker to restrict competition. But the bill relies on a functioning generic drug market that can drive down prices by mass-producing alternatives that steal customers from brand-name treatments.
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Warren’s bill, the Affordable Drug Manufacturing Act, attempts to address that market failure by having the government pick up the slack. The Office of Drug Manufacturing would acquire rights to manufacture generic drugs or contract them to be manufactured by an outside entity. The legislation explicitly states that those generic drugs must be offered at a “fair price” that covers manufacturing and administrative costs while ensuring patient access. The office could strip a contractor of its ability to make and sell the drug if the price point is too high. Proceeds for these sales would go back to covering agency costs, making it a self-sustaining entity.

The government would also be authorized to manufacture active ingredients for medications. This has become a problem, as major drug companies routinely deny rivals samples of their products, which are used in testing to determine whether the generic is an equivalent treatment.

 

[storyteller]

Skip GO to Socialism and collect your Communist Drugs. I'm okay with a Government Pharmaceutical company competing with private pharmaceutical companies. But wholesale take the whole generic drugs market over? Yeah, I dunno.


EDIT: Now that I've read the article. This might not be that bad. Might.

Yeah, I friggin' love the way that bill is designed and it's definitely unfair to describe as a wholesale takeover of the generic drugs market from what I've read. It's just looking like a way to introduce competition that would stop companies from abusing patents or making it impossible to attain those medications without having a ton of cash. I REALLY liked Majority Report's discussion about it yesterday (they added some thoughts about Warren/Sanders meeting last week and the potential implications it had on this bill being introduced and their presidential aspirations respectively). I hope that bit gets clipped out for easy sharing, though I may wind up finding it and timestamping it since I want to share it with some friends.

 

[King Kreole]

 

[Yogi]

As things stand today she has my vote.

 

[Atlrocafella]

Time to start working against her.

 

[Warren Moon]

I can’t think of one Union middle class, voter who would ever vote for this woman.

If she wins the nomination the Democratic Party is done, we are officially a coastal party.

Our only hope is joe

Please run joe

 

[Bleed The Freak]

fukk no.

You wanna see a Reagan level tsunami?

Let her get the nomination.

 

[the cac mamba]

she means well, but i would bet my life savings against one dollar that trump would beat her in 2020

 

[FAH1223]

I can’t think of one Union middle class, voter who would ever vote for this woman.

If she wins the nomination the Democratic Party is done, we are officially a coastal party.

Our only hope is joe

Please run joe

What is Joe running on besides experience and getting rid of Trump. What policies is he advocating for that will help the poor and middle classes?

BTW Joe was in the Senate for over 3 decades. He has a lot of baggage

Warren would be an amazing POTUS. People saying she has no chance are assuming she can’t win the Midwest which she would win. Populist lefties play well in WI, MI, PA and even OH.

 

[A.R.$]

Depending on who else runs I will consider voting for her. She has a great record as a consumer advocate, and holding the big money interest responsible. I never hear a good reason why people dislike her. Every reason I her is superficial, and non policy based. As far as policy is concern she is very good, especially when it comes to domestic issues. Also I think we will be able to pressure her more on Black issues than some of the other candidates like Biden.