Big Pharma is buying off members of Congress to encourage an end to "March-in" and block any efforts to regulate the cost of drugs or let Medicare negotiate prices.

In his State of the Union address, President Biden called out insulin, a treatment for diabetes that was developed over 100 years ago and, he said, costs about $10 a vial to make. Americans can pay over $1,000 for that $10 vial.

While he was successful at getting insulin costs capped at $35 per month for Medicare recipients, "Problem Solver" corporate sellout Democrats in the House and Kirsten Sinema in the Senate — along with every single Republican — blocked his efforts to extend that to all Americans with diabetes.

But that's just the tip of the iceberg.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Friday's Daily Stack

Article: "Fetterman Checks In to Hospital for Treatment of Clinical Depression" by Annie Karni.

Article: "ADHD: A Hunter in a Farmer's World 3rd Edition" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Cystic fibrosis gene protects against tuberculosis" by Debora Mackenzie.

Article: "Tay–Sachs disease" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Sickle cell disease" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Thomas Eagleton" by Wikipedia.

Movie: "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest".

Site: Mark Taylor-Canfield.

Audio: "Sold Me Down The River" by Sold Me Down The River.

Article: "2023 Seattle City Council election" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Kshama Sawant" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Seattle ‘Social Housing' backers declare victory on I-135" by jseattle.

Article: ""Gamines": the children of misery in Bogotá " by Felipe García Altamar.

Article: "Did Officer Send Photos of Tyre Nichols After His Death? What We Know" by Anna Skinner.

Article: "The Outrageous New Way Big Pharma is Trying to Rip Us All Off" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Jeb Bush's Hypocrisy on W. Privatizing Social Security" by American Bridge.

Article: "IP Explained: Four things to know about the Bayh-Dole Act" by Tom Wilbur.

Article: "Time to End the Medicare Advantage Scam" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "A Neutralizing Monoclonal Antibody for Hospitalized Patients with Covid-19" by ACTIV-3/TICO LY-CoV555 Study Group.

Article: "Estimated cost-based generic prices for molnupiravir for the treatment of COVID-19 infection" by Melissa J Barber, Dzintars Gotham.

Article: "Merck Sells Federally Financed Covid Pill to U.S. for 40 Times What It Costs to Make" by Sharon Lerner.

Article: "The Enactment of Bayh–Dole" by Ashley J. Stevens.

Article: "It's time to end the Medicare Advantage scam" by Thom Hartmann.

Book: The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich by Thom Hartmann.

Book: "The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Full transcript of Biden's State of the Union address".

Article: "United We Spend" by Rick Claypool and Zain Rizvi.

Article: "March-In Rights and U.S. Global Competitiveness" by Alexander Kersten and Gabrielle Athanasia.

Article: ""They Pick The One"" by Andrew Perez & David Sirota.

Article: "Rights to Federally Funded Inventions and Licensing of Government Owned Inventions" by NIST.

Article: "New Details About Wilbur Ross' Business Point To Pattern Of Grifting" by Dan Alexander.

Article: "Inflation Reduction Act Drug Pricing Provisions Aren't At All Like Price Controls In Europe" by Joshua Cohen.

Article: "Changes To March-In Rights Under Bayh-Dole And More?" by Michael H. Brodowski, Kuwabo Mubyana.

Article: "March-In Rights Could Ensure Patient Access By Keeping Drug Prices In Check. They're Under Attack" by Peter S. Arno, Dana Neacsu, Kathryn Ardizzone.

Article: "Developing a direct acting, orally available antiviral agent in a pandemic: the evolution of molnupiravir as a potential treatment for COVID-19" by George R Painter, Michael G Natchus, Oren Cohen, Wendy Holman, Wendy P Painter.

Article: "Merck Says It Has the First Antiviral Pill Found to Be Effective Against Covid" by Rebecca Robbins.

Article: "Rep. Kurt Schrader of Oregon helps kill drug pricing bill, endangering Biden infrastructure plan" by Alan Fram, Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar.

Article: "What Does Insulin Cost and What's Behind the Skyrocketing Prices?" by Jennifer Chesak.

Article: "Paying Twice for the Same Drugs" by Peter Arno and Michael Davis.

Article: "President Biden Announces Prescription Drug Pricing Plan in Build Back Better Framework".

Article: "Nikki Haley" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ron DeSantis" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Nikki Haley Reveals How She Really Feels About Mike Pence" by Joey Keogh.

Article: "Larry Hogan" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Nikki Haley Unable to Answer How She's Different From Trump in Interview" by Gerrard Kaonga.

Article: "Mitt Romney" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Marjorie Taylor Greene" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Lauren Boebert melts down in Congress over Twitter violating her "free speech"" by Alex Bollinger.

Article: "Adam Frisch" by Wikipedia.

Article: "After 2022 loss, Adam Frisch will try again to unseat Rep. Lauren Boebert in Colorado 3rd Congressional District" by Ben Warwick.

Article: "List of mass shootings in the United States" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Port Arthur massacre (Australia)" by Wikipedia.

Site: End The Bribe System (incl. bumper stickers).

Site: Indivisible.

Law: "Inflation Reduction Act of 2022".

Site: Affordable Connectivity Program.

Article: "Paul R. Ehrlich" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Rachel Carson" by Wikipedia.

Book: "The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Revised and Updated: The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late" by Thom Hartmann.

Site/movie: Last Hours

Article: "Man wanted a COVID booster before flying abroad. A Rite Aid pharmacist canceled his shot" by Angela Palermo.

Article: "BREAKING: [New] Idaho Bill seeks to charge anyone who administers an mRNA Vaccine with a Misdemeanor" by In It to Win It.

Article: "Rep. George Santos vows to stop lying : ‘I've learned my lesson'" by Michael McAuliff and Dave Goldiner.

Article: "The making of Anna Paulina Luna" by Jacqueline Alemany, Alice Crites.

Article: "Businessman, economist, cop, international sex crimes expert? The stories of Congressman Andy Ogles" by NewsChannel 5.

Article: "BREAKING: [New] Idaho Bill seeks to charge anyone who administers an mRNA Vaccine with a Misdemeanor" by In It to Win It.

Article: "Morning Digest: Our new data shows just how out-of-whack the Senate is" by Daily Kos Elections

Article: "Preventing Dementia and Cognitive Impairment: The Powerful Benefits of More Steps and Moderate Exercise" by University of California.

Book: The Hidden History of American Democracy: Rediscovering Humanity's Ancient Way of Living by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "University of Texas tower shooting" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Kent State shootings" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Reagan called protesting students "freaks" and "cowardly fascists". Called for a "bloodbath."" by floridagal.

Book: "The Hidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment" by Thom Hartmann.

Video: Franklin D Roosevelt: Democratic State Convention, 29 September 1936 'Let me warn you, and let me warn the nation'.

Article: "Antimicrobial resistance" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Rail Companies Blocked Safety Rules Before Ohio Derailment" by David Sirota, Julia Rock, Rebecca Burns & Matthew Cunningham-Cook.

Article: "Polyvinyl chloride" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ralph Andrews" by Wikipedia.

Site: National Bureau of Economic Research.

Article: "Quantitative Easing (QE)" by Investopedia.

Article: "Quantitative Tightening (QT)" by Investopedia.

Article: "'Like a coup': Michigan Republicans raise alarms at militant far-right takeover of their party " by Tom Boggioni.

Article: "Armed Community Groups Are Defending Texas Drag Queens From Christian Fascists" by Candice Bernd.

Article: "'Go back to your own country': Ann Coulter welcomes Nikki Haley to the 2024 presidential election race" by Rodric Hurdle-Bradford.

Article: "Idaho House passes nonbinding measure calling for formal ‘Greater Idaho' talks" by Clark Corbin.

Article: "County statistics of the United States" by Wikipedia.

Site: Idaho Statewide Housing Analysis.

Article: "Idaho lawmakers Scott and Boyle visit Malhuer during final day of occupation" by Cameron Rasmusson.

Article: "Judy Boyle" by Wikipedia.

Bill: "ID SJR101 Proposes a state constitutional amendment to require any referendum petition or initiative petition to be signed by at least 6% of legal voters at the last general election in each legislative district.".

Article: "Tyre Nichols Update: Judge Issues Warning After Officers Plead Not Guilty" by Matthew Impelli.

Article: "Lauren Boebert" by Wikipedia.

Site: Karl Frisch.

Article: "Ohio train derailment: EPA administrator visits East Palestine, asks residents to 'trust the government'" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ohio train derailment: Senator Sherrod Brown calls for state of emergency to be declared in East Palestine" by Bevan Hurley.

Article: "How many train derailments have there been in the US in 2023?" by Joe Sommerlad.

Article: "2015 Philadelphia train derailment" by Wikipedia.

Law: "Rail Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (RSIA)".

Article: "Is Donald Trump to Blame for Ohio Train Derailment?" by James Bickerton.

Article: "George Washington Carver" by history.com.

Book: The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich by Thom Hartmann.

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