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publicoptionplease.com - 19 days ago
Public Option Please
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In the health care bill in Congress, there’s a dangerous provision about “biologics” drugs that will make it virtually impossible for patients of breast cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, and Crohn’s disease to have access to affordable medication. Several members of Congress – like Rep. Anna Eshoo ...
huffingtonpost.com - 19 days ago
Vitter Confronted By Rape Victim Over Franken Amendment Vote
— huffingtonpost.com — Senator David Vitter (R-LA) doggedly opposed a congressional measure last month to prohibit the government from working with contractors who deny victims of rape or assault the right to bring their cases to court. Vitter, who was one of only 30 ... (more) Vitter Confronted By Rape Victim Over Franken Amendment Vote

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Eshoo, AMSA, and Me: A Visit to the Senate to Stop Pro-PhRMA Bill
fdlaction.firedoglake.com - 16 days ago
Eshoo, AMSA, and Me: A Visit to the Senate to Stop Pro-PhRMA Bill
— fdlaction.firedoglake.com — I had the best time last week for Halloween. I went to the Senate on behalf of POP with the medical students from AMSA who first alerted me to the problems in Anna Eshoo’s (D-PhRMA) bill, which would grant monopolies on expensive, ... (more) Eshoo, AMSA, and Me: A Visit to the Senate to Stop ...

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Help Sherrod Brown Get Bipartisan Support for Health Care Reform
fdlaction.firedoglake.com - 19 days ago
Help Sherrod Brown Get Bipartisan Support for Health Care Reform
— fdlaction.firedoglake.com — In the Senate, Kay Hagan sponsored an almost identical piece of legislation to Rep. Eshoo’s on biologic drugs , which would keep important lifesaving treatments for breast cancer and other diseases which can cost $50,000 or $300,000 a ... (more) Help Sherrod Brown Get Bipartisan Support for Health ...

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Firedoglake:  Help Sherrod Brown Get Bipartisan Support for Health Care Reform

Blue Virginia:  FDL Action Health Care Update: Monday (11/2/09)

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Help Sherrod Brown Get Bipartisan Support for Health Care Reform
Firedoglake — ... looking for bipartisan support for an issue in the health care bill, this is it. The President himself supported a 7 year monopoly rather than Eshoo’s 12 year monopoly (even though the FTC recommended “zero.”) Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY): 202-224-6542 Senator Susan Collins (R-ME): 202-224-2523 Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH): 202-224-2315 Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI): 202-224-4822 Senator David Vitter (R-LA): 202-224-4623 Sign our petition to these senators asking them to introduce their amendment, and then follow up ...

FDL Action Health Care Update: Monday (11/2/09)
Blue Virginia — ... everyone to contact Senator Sherrod Brown and his cosponsors, asking them to introduce their "amendment to the Hagan/Eshoo PhRMA boondogle." The goal here is to facilitate "important lifesaving treatments for breast cancer and other diseases" becoming generics, and thereby more affordable to people. Let's see, lifesaving treatments for people or profits for Big PhRMA? Tough choice, I know. (snark) ...

Eshoo, AMSA, and Me: A Visit to the Senate to Stop Pro-PhRMA Bill
Firedoglake — ... Please help them spread the word by telling Senators Sherrod Brown, Chuck Schumer, Debbie Stabinow, Susan Collins and David Vitter (yes, that David Vitter) to help them fight to defeat Eshoo and PhRMA. ...

FDL Action Health Care Update: Thursday (11/5/09)
Blue Commonwealth - Front Page — ... of AMSA medical students and her visiting the Senate on Halloween to stop the Anna Eshoo/PhRMA Bill. Jane adds that you can help the medical students "spread the word by telling Senators Sherrod Brown, Chuck Schumer, Debbie Stabenow, Susan Collins and David Vitter (yes, that David Vitter) to help them fight to defeat Eshoo and PhRMA." ...

FDL Action Health Care Update: Thursday (11/5/09)
Blue Virginia — ... of AMSA medical students and her visiting the Senate on Halloween to stop the Anna Eshoo/PhRMA Bill. Jane adds that you can help the medical students "spread the word by telling Senators Sherrod Brown, Chuck Schumer, Debbie Stabenow, Susan Collins and David Vitter (yes, that David Vitter) to help them fight to defeat Eshoo and PhRMA." ...

Marcy Winograd: Jane Harman Profits from Anti-Generics Amendment She Helped Eshoo Pass
Firedoglake — ... Sign the petition and please forward to your friends right now: Tell Senators Brown, Stabenow and Schumer to fight for affordable generic drugs for cancer and AIDS patients. ...

ACTION: Treat Patients, Not PhRMA Tricks
Firedoglake — ... Help Medical Students Fight PhMRA for affordable generics with their POP video: 1) Click here to automatically Tweet about this video 2) Post to your Facebook Page 3) Copy and paste this to your FB status: Beat PhRMA! Votes on health care tomorrow. Watch this video and share: http://bit.ly/3VnBFj 4) Rate and favorite this video on YouTube 5) Recommend on Reddit & Digg 6) Sign the petition 5) Email this to your friends and ask them to do the same! ...

FDL Action Health Care Update: Friday (11/6/09)
Blue Commonwealth - Front Page — ... , but she couldn't have done it without the help of her good friend Jane Harman." Hamsher urges everyone to sign the petition telling Senators Brown, Stabenow and Schumer to fight for affordable generic drugs for cancer and AIDS patients. ...

Will PhRMA’s Fax Machines in the Senate Continue Eshoo’s Work?
Firedoglake — Ask Sherrod Brown to save us from PhRMA and the Eshoo/Hagan/ lobbyist-written biologics legislation HERE. Well, we now know that 42 bipartisan members of the House were willing to act act as PhRMA’s fax machines. I guess it shouldn’t have been a surprise — 80 House Dems signed a letter to Henry Waxman, telling him to substitute the White House PhRMA deal for his own much stronger language. The question is, what are the Senate Democrats going to do about it? ...

What to Do When Caught Spamming the Congressional Record? Raise Drug Prices!
Firedoglake — ... Maybe granting drug companies an “indefinite monopoly” (in the words of Henry Waxman) isn’t the greatest idea? Even if you think someone will wave a magic wand and make biologic drugs available to you, the $50,000 to $300,000 annual pricetag is going to put it out of the reach of countries already struggling to provide health care. Ask Sherrod Brown to save us from PhRMA and the Eshoo/Hagan/ lobbyist-written biologics legislation HERE. ...

FDL Action Health Care Update: Monday (11/16/09)
Blue Commonwealth - Front Page — Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Monday, November 16. 1. Jon Walker reports that "HR 3962's Massive Expansion Of Coverage Would Result In Very Small Increase In Health Care Spending." Walker adds, "Despite the Republican talking point, it is not some liberal overreach-this reform bill is extremely modest reform that leaves statue quo mostly unchanged." 2. Jane Hamsher requests that we "[a]sk Sherrod Brown to save us from PhRMA and the Eshoo/Hagan/ lobbyist-written biologics legislation HERE." 3. I blog about a ...

FDL Action Health Care Update: Monday (11/16/09)
Blue Virginia — Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Monday, November 16. 1. Jon Walker reports that "HR 3962’s Massive Expansion Of Coverage Would Result In Very Small Increase In Health Care Spending." Walker adds, "Despite the Republican talking point, it is not some liberal overreach–this reform bill is extremely modest reform that leaves statue quo mostly unchanged." 2. Jane Hamsher requests that we "[a]sk Sherrod Brown to save us from PhRMA and the Eshoo/Hagan/ lobbyist-written biologics legislation HERE." 3. I blog ...

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